About two months before I was arrested Israeli soldiers came to our house at 3:00 a.m. accompanied by the Israeli intelligence officer for the area. The soldiers broke the outside doors and entered our home in an aggressive manner and told my father to bring the family to the living room. They made us sit on the floor with our hands above our heads. The soldiers came to my bedroom and poked me with their guns to wake me up.

 

One of the soldiers asked me for my name and immediately took me to the living room. The intelligence officer told me he had information that I was a trouble maker in the village and that I set fire to tyres near the settlement. He warned me that if I didn’t stop these acts he was going to arrest me. The soldiers remained in the house for about an hour and then left without arresting me.

 

About two months later, on 13 December 2015, I woke up at around 3:00 a.m. to the sound of loud banging at our front door. Seconds later soldiers broke down our front door and stormed into our house and started to shout at my father ordering him to lie down on the floor. Then they came to my bedroom and told me they had an arrest warrant for me and my father but they did not give us any documents.

 

The soldiers then told me to leave with them. They told me to bring my clothes to the jeep because they had no time to wait for me to change. They took me and my father outside and immediately blindfolded me and tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie. The tie was very tight. They did the same to my father and took both of us to a jeep where they made us sit on the floor.

 

The jeep drove around the village for about 30 minutes while the soldiers made more arrests. Then the jeep drove for another 30 minutes to a nearby Israeli military base. My father and I were taken to a room where we waited with other detainees. I sat on a chair until around 10:00 a.m. There were soldiers guarding us and they did not allow us to move. At around 10:00 a.m. my father and I were taken for interrogation.

 

Before taking us into the interrogation room my father and I were physically searched. Then they took us to a room where the intelligence officer was waiting. The soldiers removed the blindfolds but kept us tied. They made us sit on chairs and the intelligence officer told my father he was fed up with me. He did not inform me of any rights. My father told the officer he had no idea what he was talking about and that he didn’t know why the two of us were detained and brought there.

 

The intelligence officer then reminded my father that he had come to our house and warned me not to set tyres on fire near the settlement and not to throw stones. He then told my father that he had information that I still took part in such events and that he was given this information on multiple occasions. He also told my father that some of my friends told the intelligence officer I was involved in these events on four occasions.

 

I told the officer that I stayed home since he came to our house to give me a warning and that I did not take part in such incidents at all. The officer yelled at me and called me a liar. My father asked the officer to provide evidence to prove the allegation. The officer became very angry and asked my father if he was calling him a liar. My father then told the officer he had no right to arrest him if I was accused of throwing stones and starting fires near the settlement and that he hadn’t done anything wrong to justify his arrest. My father also told him they could have delivered a summons and he would have brought me for interrogation instead of dragging both of us out of the house in the middle of the night.

 

The officer then told me I had to give him my word I would never ever throw stones or set fire to tyres otherwise he was going to lock me up in prison for a long time. The officer was typing all this up on his computer but he did not give me or my father any documents to sign. He then told me he was going to release me this time.

 

A soldier blindfolded me and my father again and took us to the other room. My father and I waited in the room until around 3:00 p.m. when we were put in the back of a jeep which dropped us off at a nearby road intersection. My father called a taxi from the village which took us home. We arrived home at around 4:00 p.m.