I was arrested on the main road at around 9:00 a.m. At the time there were clashes with Israeli soldiers on Route 60. The soldiers started chasing everyone and I was detained.

 

As soon as I was arrested the soldiers beat me all over my body. I was then blindfolded and my hands were tied behind my back with three plastic ties: one on each wrist and one connecting the two. The ties were very tight. Then they made me sit on the ground for about 10 minutes before putting me in the back of a jeep where they made me sit on the metal floor. The jeep drove to the Israeli police station in Etzion settlement.

 

At Etzion I was taken to a courtyard with lots of soldiers and they allowed me to use the toilet. I remained there until around 11:00 a.m. when I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator wore an Israeli police uniform. He removed the blindfold but I remained tied. He did not inform me of any rights. He showed me four photographs of someone throwing stones at soldiers and immediately asked me whether I wanted to confess easily. He threatened me that if I did not confess he would use "different techniques" on me. He then told me I was accused of throwing stones at soldiers.

 

I was interrogated for about an hour. The interrogator raised his voice at times in an attempt to scare me. He also verbally abused me and told me I was "a son of a whore".

 

After about an hour he took me to another interrogator who questioned me without informing me of my rights. The second interrogator wanted me to confess against other boys. He showed me photographs of boys I did not know and wanted me to confess that they were throwing stones at soldiers. I told him I did not know the boys.

 

The second interrogator then took me to see a policeman called "Yossi" who showed me a document in Arabic and Hebrew that said I had the right to remain silent and the right to consult with a lawyer. He asked me for my father’s number but I gave him my brother’s number because I knew it by heart. He called my brother and told him I had a military court hearing the following day.

 

The interrogator then printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did without understanding it. I assumed it was identical to what I had said. Then they took my photograph and fingerprints.

 

After I was fingerprinted they strip searched me and took me to a cell where they removed the hand ties. I spent a night at Etzion and I was given some food and drink. The following morning I was shackled and handcuffed and taken to a vehicle where I sat on a seat. The vehicle drove for about 30 minutes to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem.

 

At Ofer I was strip searched again and taken immediately to the military court. My parents were not there but my lawyer was and the hearing was adjourned.

 

I had another five military court hearings and on the last one I was sentenced to three months in prison and fined NIS 3,000 in a plea bargain. I was also given a suspended sentence of one year in prison valid for five years.  My mother had to sign a document guaranteeing that I would not engage in similar activities in the future.

 

I spent 10 days of my prison sentence at Ofer and then I was transferred to Megiddo prison, inside Israel. I had to show up at Ofer court and the trip from Megiddo was long and exhausting. In prison I studied Arabic and mathematics.

 

I was released from Megiddo on 27 March 2017 at around 9:00 a.m. I arrived home with my parents at around 8:00 p.m. because I was dropped off at Salem checkpoint, a long way from where I live.