I was asleep when I heard loud banging at our front door at around 2:00 a.m. When I opened the door I saw a group of Israeli soldiers. The commander asked for Hani and I said I was Hani. He asked to see my identity card. The commander then told me I was under arrest and he gave my father a document with details about my arrest. He told him they wanted to question me at Binyamin police station about throwing stones.

 

My hands were then tied to the front with one plastic tie which was tight. They also blindfolded me.  I was then taken outside to a troop carrier near our house. They made me sit on the metal floor. The soldiers made more arrests in the village before the carrier drove to the settlement of Binyamin. I was put in a big room where I waited until around 7:00 p.m. I was without food or drink and I wasn’t allowed to use the toilet. I managed to sleep for short periods of time and at around 7:00 p.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator removed the tie and the blindfold and started to ask me questions without informing me of my rights. He asked me why I throw stones at soldiers and wanted to know the names of the boys from the village who throw stones. He had a tape recorder and was typing on his computer. I denied the accusation and denied any connection to boys who throw stones.

 

The interrogator suddenly started to shout at me. He called me "a fucker son of a whore" and repeated the same questions again and again. I continued to deny the accusation and denied any connection to boys who throw stones. The interrogation lasted for about 90 minutes. He then asked me to sign some documents in Hebrew but I refused to sign anything in a language I didn’t understand.

 

I was then photographed and fingerprinted and taken back to the room where I waited for about two hours. I wasn’t tied or blindfolded during this time.

 

About two hours later I was shackled and handcuffed to the front and taken to the back of a troop carrier where I sat on a seat. The carrier drove to the Israeli police station in Etzion settlement where we arrived at around midnight. At Etzion I was strip searched and then taken to a cell where they removed the shackles and the hand cuffs. I spent the night there.

 

The following day I was given some food and then I was transferred to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched again and taken into Section 13. During my time at Ofer I had five military court hearings. My parents attended all the hearings and I was allowed to speak to them. Not much happened and the hearings were adjourned. At the last hearing the military court decided to release me on bail. My parents had to pay NIS 1,500.

 

I was released on 17 April 2016, at around 4:00 p.m. My parents were waiting outside Ofer and I went home with them. I don’t know whether there will be more hearings in the future, I wasn’t given any dates.