I was having a picnic with some friends in an area called Sidi Sheban behind the settlement of Pesagot, near Ramallah. At around 3:00 p.m. I wanted to ride a horse so I went to where the horses were kept when I suddenly saw a group of boys running. I also saw about six Israeli soldiers on foot a few meters away.

 

One of the soldiers called me and when he came close he held me by the shoulders as if he wanted to say something. The soldiers then led me towards the main road. When we got to the road the soldiers made me wait for about 30 minutes.

 

Some of my friends, who were also at the picnic, tried to intervene to get me released but they were not successful. Then two commanders approached me and started to ask me questions. They did not inform me of any rights. 

 

One of the commanders asked me why I threw stones. He also wanted names of boys who throw stones. I denied the accusation and refused to answer his questions. The other commander then intervened and claimed that the soldiers found a sling shot in the area where I was arrested. He accused me of using the sling shot while on the back of a horse. I told him I didn’t get to ride a horse. I also denied having a sling shot.

 

The first commander repeated the same allegations and the same questions. The second commander threatened to arrest me if he ever saw me in the area again.

 

About 30 minutes later I was put in the back of a jeep where I sat on the floor and the jeep drove to the nearby settlement of Kochav Ya’acov. The trip took 15 minutes. When we arrived the gate was closed and the jeep was sent back.

 

I was then taken to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, but the same thing happened there. In the end the jeep drove to the settlement of Bet El where I waited inside the jeep for a short while before I was handed over to the Palestinian police who called my parents and told them to pick me up. I arrived home with my parents at round 9:00 p.m.