I woke up at around 2:00 a.m. to the sound of loud banging at our front door. My father answered and a group of Israeli soldiers entered our home and immediately conducted a search. After the search the soldiers told my father they had come to arrest me. They gave my father a document with details about my arrest and asked him to go to the police station in Etzion settlement in the morning.

 

The soldiers then took me outside where they handcuffed me to the front. The cuffs were painful but later I complained and they loosened them. They also blindfolded me. I was then taken to the back of a military jeep where I sat on a seat.

 

The jeep drove for about 10 minutes before it stopped at the nearby settlement of Karmi Zur. At the settlement I was examined by a doctor who removed the blindfold and asked me some medical questions. He then blindfolded me again.

 

After the medical examination I was taken back to the jeep which drove for about 15 minutes before it stopped somewhere I did not recognize. I was then put in a shipping container. I sat on a chair and I was able to sleep until around 7:00 a.m.

 

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 to Etzion police station. All this time I wasn’t given any food or drink and I could not use the toilet because the soldier refused to remove the handcuffs. At Etzion I sat in an outdoor area in the cold. At around 5:00 p.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator did not inform me of any rights. He threatened to "fuck me and my mother" if I did not confess. He verbally abused me and said terrible things about my mother and he slapped me twice. In the beginning he did not remove the blindfold and told me to wait because he was going to bring a baton to beat me. He asked me whether I wanted to be beaten with a baton and I said no. He then made me stand up and started to question me. He asked me whether I threw stones. When I said I did not he slapped me.

 

Then the interrogator removed my blindfold and made me sit on the floor. He told me there were confessions against me from other boys that I threw stones, Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at soldiers. I denied the accusations and told him this was not true because I spend most of my time either at school or at home. He told me all boys say the same thing and then they all turn out to be liars.

 

He questioned me for about 30 minutes and I did not confess. Then he took me to see a policeman who told me his name was "Yossi". The policeman told me I had the right to remain silent and the right to consult with a lawyer. Then he repeated the same questions and focused on my relationship with one of the young men shot and killed by soldiers in the camp. I told him I had no relationship to him. Then he printed out my statement in both Hebrew and Arabic and asked me to sign it but I refused.

 

After the interrogation the interrogator phoned my father and told him I was at Etzion and asked him to appoint a lawyer for me. My father gave him the name of a lawyer and the interrogator called him but this was after the interrogation was over.

 

Then they took my fingerprints and photograph and took me to a cell where they removed the handcuffs. Later in the night I was shackled and handcuffed to the front and taken to the back of a police car which drove to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken into Section 13. By then it was around 1:00 a.m.

 

The following day I was taken to Ofer military court. My parents and my lawyer were there and I was allowed to speak to them but the hearing was adjourned. I was released without charge on 6 December 2016, before my second hearing. I took a taxi home together with other boys who were released on the same day. My parents were not informed of my release, which is why they were not there to take me home. I arrived home at around 9:00 p.m.