I woke up to the sound of banging at our front door at around 3:30 a.m. My father opened the door and a group of Israeli soldiers told my father they wanted to arrest me without explaining why. They did not enter our house and did not give us any documents. I got dressed and the soldiers took me on foot to the nearby military base. On the way they blindfolded me and handcuffed me to the back with metal handcuffs which were not painful.

 

When we arrived at the base I was taken to a room where I sat on the floor for about two hours. The weather was cold. Then I was taken to the back of a military jeep where I sat on a seat. The jeep drove for about an hour before it stopped at a police station on Salah Eddin Street, in East Jerusalem. There, I was taken to a small room with a bed made of concrete and I slept. I was still handcuffed and blindfolded. At around 10:00 a.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator questioned me while I was still handcuffed and blindfolded. He told me I had the right to consult with a lawyer and then he called someone and told me he was a lawyer. He did not tell me his name. The person told me to remain silent and to deny any accusations. The interrogator then accused me of throwing a Molotov cocktail at soldiers in the camp. The interrogator did not inform me of my right to silence. He then removed the blindfold and showed me a photograph and told me the person in the photograph was me. I denied that it was me.

 

The interrogator then showed me a stick he was holding and told me it was a taser and threatened to hit me with it if I didn’t confess. He did not hit me with the stick. The interrogation lasted for about three hours. A second interrogator also took part in the questioning. When I denied the accusation he punched and slapped me in the face. He insisted that the photograph was of me. In the end I felt I could no longer deny it and I was scared that the interrogator might use the taser so I confessed that the person in the photograph was me. When the interrogation was over I noticed a camera and a tape recorder in the room.

 

The interrogator printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked to sign it and I did out of fear. I was then photographed and fingerprinted and taken to the room with the concrete bed where the handcuffs were removed. I remained there from Monday until Wednesday when I was transferred to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. During this time soldiers brought me food and water and a doctor examined me.

 

At Ofer I was strip searched and taken into Section 13. On the same day I was taken to the military court where I saw my lawyer and my parents. The hearing was adjourned. I had about 15 military court hearings. In the end I was sentenced to five months in prison and fined NIS 2,000. I was also given a suspended sentence of seven months valid for five years.

 

In prison I studied Arabic and mathematics and my parents visited me regularly. I was released on 23 June 2016.