I was working in the garden at my friend’s house when suddenly a group of about 12 Israeli soldiers showed up. We were very surprised because soldiers usually only come to the village when there are incidents. This time there were no incidents. One of my friends and I tried to run away but the soldiers chased us and immediately arrested us. One of the soldiers shouted at us to stop and started to swear at us and said he was going to teach us a lesson.

 

A soldier grabbed me and pushed me into the back of a military jeep which was waiting around the corner. He made me sit on a seat. The jeep drove for about 10 minutes towards the nearby Israeli military base. At the base I was blindfolded and tied to the back with one plastic tie. The tie was not painful. The soldiers made me sit on the ground in a courtyard for about six hours.

 

A soldier asked me why I throw stones and told me one of my friends had confessed against me. I told him I wasn’t throwing stones and that I was working in the garden with my friends. They did not allow me to lean my back against anything which was very uncomfortable. I was blindfolded and tied the whole time. I wasn’t given anything to eat but I was given some water and allowed to use the bathroom.

 

At around 9.30 p.m. I was taken in a jeep to the District Coordination checkpoint. On the way soldiers made fun of me and kept talking to me in English and in Hebrew which are languages I don’t understand. They swore at me and called my mother a "whore". A female soldier was in the jeep and she was the one who swore at me.

 

At the checkpoint I was handed over to the Palestinian police who removed the blindfold and the tie and took me home. I arrived home at around 1.00 a.m. When I see soldiers in the village now I try to stay home. I lock myself up in my bedroom until they leave.