I was arrested from home at around 2:30 a.m. I was asleep when a large number of Israeli soldiers raided our home and came into my bedroom and woke me up. They asked my father to bring the identity cards of everyone in the house. They checked my name and immediately arrested me and took me outside after I got dressed.

 

Once outside I was blindfolded and my hands were painfully tied behind my back with one plastic tie. They gave my father a document saying they were going to take me and my brother for questioning at Binyamin police station because we were accused of throwing stones at soldiers.

 

There were lots of soldiers and military vehicles outside our house. The soldiers made me sit on the ground outside for about two hours. Then they took me to the back of a jeep and forced me to sit on the metal floor. The jeep drove around for a long time until we finally arrived at the police station inside Binyamin settlement at around 6:00 a.m.

 

At the police station I sat on a plastic chair and asked to use the toilet but they didn’t allow me to use the toilet until about an hour later. During this time a doctor examined me and then I was taken for interrogation. It was around 7:30 a.m.

 

The interrogator removed the blindfold and the tie and replaced it with metal handcuffs. He had a tape recorder in front of him. He immediately accused me of throwing stones and did not inform me of any rights. He also told me soldiers found my fingerprints on a Molotov cocktail. I denied the accusations. The interrogator repeated the same accusations for about 30 minutes.

 

He then took my fingerprints and sent me back to the interrogation room where he repeated the same accusations. He then showed me some pictures of boys throwing stones but I wasn’t in the pictures. I denied the accusations again and told him I had no idea about the boys in the pictures. He then printed out my statement in Hebrew and translated it for me and asked me to sign which I did after I found out it was identical to what I had told him. I was then sent back to the other room.

 

About 15 minutes later I was blindfolded and handcuffed and taken to the back of a troop carrier where I sat on a seat. The carrier drove for about 90 minutes to the police station inside Etzion settlement. I slept on the way. As soon as we arrived I was taken to a room where they removed the blindfold but kept my handcuffs on. It was around 11:00 a.m.

 

I asked a soldier whether I was going to stay at Etzion and he told me they were going to take me to Ofer prison. I remained on a chair in the room until around 8:00 p.m when I was taken back to Binyamin together with two other boys. The trip to Binyamin took around two hours and we were driven back to Etzion again. The trip took a long time and we arrived at Etzion at 2:30 a.m. When we arrived there the commander told me I was going to be released and asked me to call my father to come and pick me up.

 

I called my father and about an hour later my father arrived and took me home. We arrived home at around 5:30 a.m. on 26 February 2016.