I was arrested near the fence of Beit El settlement at around 1:00 p.m. I went to the area with some friends after school to play. One of my friends told me to accompany him because he wanted to approach the fence to throw stones at the settlement and I did. My friend threw some stones and settlement kids were watching and making fun of us.

 

Then all of a sudden three Israeli soldiers started to chase my friend but he managed to run away. Then they chased me and I could not escape. One of the soldiers beat me hard and I fell to the ground and hurt my head. The other soldiers pushed me and swore at me and called me "a son of a whore". I was terrified.

 

One of the soldiers then handcuffed me to the back. The cuffs were very tight but I was too scared to ask him to loosen them because I thought he would beat me harder.  Then they took me towards a military watchtower where they made me sit on the ground for about an hour.

 

After an hour I was put in the back of a jeep and made me sit on the metal floor. The jeep drove for about 30 minutes. During the trip my father called me on my phone and I wanted to answer but the soldiers wouldn’t let me. One of the soldiers hit me and took the telephone away.

 

By this time the handcuffs were so tight that I could not move my hands and I asked the soldier to loosen them and he did. The jeep arrived at a place I did not recognize but there were lots of soldiers training. I was taken out of the jeep and a soldier gave me an orange and a can of Coca Cola. Then I was taken to a room where I waited for the interrogator.

 

The interrogator removed the handcuffs and asked me some personal questions: my name, which class I was in and the name of my family. He did not inform me of any rights. Then he asked me why I threw stones at the settlement and wanted to know the name of the boy who was with me. I told him I was playing and did not throw stones. Then he pulled out a knife from a plastic bag and handed it over to me and asked me to stab the soldier who was standing behind me. When I refused he started to laugh hysterically. Then he peeled an orange and started to eat it and offered me some but I refused.

 

I asked to use the toilet but he asked the soldier in the room to take me out to pee under a tree. The soldier was standing very close to me as I peed. Then I went back to the interrogation room.

 

The interrogator then tried to scare me by saying he was going to detain me for seven years and destroy my future. I started to cry. A telephone rang while I was crying and the interrogator spoke to someone in Hebrew and then spoke to the soldier in the room who then took me to a jeep and I was handed over to the Palestinian police.

 

My father was waiting for me with the Palestinian police and I went home with him. It was around 5:00 p.m. I wasn’t asked to sign any documents.