There was loud aggressive banging at our front door at around 2:30 a.m. My father answered and Israeli soldiers entered our home and immediately told my father to bring everyone to the living room. Then they checked my father’s identity card and told him they wanted to arrest me. They gave my father a document with information about my arrest and asked him to sign it. They told him they wanted to question me about throwing stones at soldiers and that they would bring me back in a few hours.

 

I was then taken outside where I was blindfolded and tied to the front with one plastic tie which was tight. The soldiers then pushed me into the back of a military jeep where they made me sit on the metal floor.

 

The jeep drove for a short distance to the nearby settlement of Bitar Illit where I was examined by a doctor. The doctor removed the blindfold during the examination and put it back on when he was done. Then I was taken to a room where I sat on a chair and I could not sleep. The whole time I was thinking about what they might do to me.

 

At around 7:00 a.m. I was taken back to the jeep where I sat on the floor and the jeep drove for about 30 minutes before stopping at a place I could not recognize. I was taken to a courtyard near a block of offices where I remained until around 1:00 p.m. I was then taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator took me to a room and kept me standing. I remained tied and blindfolded. I think he had a stick in his hand which he kept hitting the floor with making a distinct sound. I could hear that he was also hitting his hand with the stick in a threatening gesture as if he wanted to beat me.

 

The interrogator started to ask me about boys who throw stones at soldiers without informing me of my right to silence and my right to consult with a lawyer. He wanted to know whether I sided with the boys or with him. He kept me standing and asked me the same questions over and over again for about an hour. He mentioned the names of some boys from my village and wanted me to tell him they throw stones at soldiers.

 

After about an hour the interrogator took me to another room where he removed the blindfold and the tie and made me sit on a chair. He showed me pictures of some boys and asked me who they were and wanted me to confess against them and say they threw stones at soldiers. When I recognized a boy and told him his name he wrote down that I had confessed against that boy that he threw stones although this was not true.

 

At the end of the interrogation he printed out a document in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did without understating what it said. Then he called my father and asked him to appoint a lawyer for me. Then he took me to see an Israeli policeman who told me I had the right to silence and the right to consult with a lawyer and then he made the same accusations as the first interrogator. The policeman printed out a new statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did. Then they took my photograph and fingerprints and strip searched me. I was then taken to a cell in the settlement of Etzion where I remained until around 9:00 p.m.

 

At around 9:00 p.m. a soldier shackled my ankles and handcuffed me and put me in a troop carrier where I sat on a seat. The troop carrier drove for about an hour to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was again strip searched and taken to Section 13.

 

The following day I was taken to Ofer military court. My father was in court and I was allowed to speak to him. The military judge said that I could be interrogated further because there wasn’t enough evidence against me and the hearing was adjourned.

 

Two days later I was taken to the police station in the settlement of Kiryat Arba for more interrogation. The interrogator questioned me for about 30 minutes and accused me of throwing stones at soldiers. He gave me some dates and told me I threw stones at soldiers on those dates. I denied the accusation and told him this was not true. After the interrogation I was taken back to Ofer prison. I was taken back to Kiryat Arba three more times. Each time I was questioned for about 15 minutes about the same accusations which I continued to deny.

 

I had five military court hearings and in the end I was released on bail. My parents had to pay NIS 500 bail. I don’t know whether my file had been closed or not. I was released on 6 February 2017, and dropped off at Beit Sira checkpoint where I waited for my father to pick me up. I was released at around 10:00 p.m. and I arrived home with my father at around 2:00 a.m.

 

When we arrived home we found soldiers surrounding our house. The commander told my father to make sure I stop throwing stones at soldiers and threatened to put me in prison if I did. He also told my father they had revoked his work permit and that he wasn’t allowed to work at the settlement any more.