I was arrested on the main road near my school at around 1:30 p.m. There were clashes at the time and some boys were throwing stones at Israeli soldiers when all of a sudden a number of military jeeps chased the boys. They all ran away but I couldn’t run fast enough and I froze in my place out of fear as the soldiers started to fire stun grenades in my direction. One of the soldiers grabbed me and beat me very hard and lifted me up and threw me on the floor in the back of the jeep.

 

The jeep drove to a nearby military watchtower where I was taken inside. I sat on the floor and a group of three soldiers took turns beating me for about 20 minutes.  Then they threw me out of the watchtower and shackled my legs and tied my hands behind my back with one plastic tie which was painful. I remained outside next to the jeep for about two hours. At around 4:30 p.m. the commander came and started to question me.

 

The commander took me to the back of the jeep and asked me questions about throwing stones and about the nature of my participation in the clashes. He wanted to know how many boys were there and asked me for their names but I refused to give any names.  The questioning lasted for about 30 minutes and the commander kept repeating the same questions again and again and I did not give him answers because I was crying.

 

The commander did not mention anything about a lawyer or any other rights. Then I was taken back to the watchtower where I sat for a couple of hours. During this time the soldiers contacted my parents and my older brother came and took me home. It was around 8:00 p.m. As I was leaving the soldiers threatened not to release me ever if I am arrested again.