I was at a car wash in my village at around 2:00 p.m. when an Israeli police car hit another car from behind. Four Israeli policemen stepped out of the car and arrested a boy from the village who was in the car. They also arrested me simply because I was standing nearby.

 

As soon as they arrested me the policemen beat me hard. A few minutes later another police jeep and a military jeep arrived at the scene and I was forced into the back of the police jeep. The policemen continued to beat me as they pushed me inside the jeep.

 

Inside the police jeep I was painfully handcuffed to the other boy and shackled and I was asked to crouch on the metal floor which was very uncomfortable. Each time I moved I was hit. I remained in the police jeep for about two hours and then the jeep drove to the police station in Binyamin settlement.

 

On arrival at Binyamin I was taken to a room where I remained for about four hours while sitting on the floor. I was not allowed to use the toilet or to drink water. At around 8:30 p.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator did not remove the handcuffs or the shackles and immediately started to question me without informing me of my rights. He wanted to know why I was at the carwash and who owned the car that was hit. He wanted to know whether I had any connection to the other boy who was arrested with me. I told him I had no idea owned the car and I didn’t know what he was talking about.

 

The interrogator then told me that the other boy had confessed to stealing the car and warned me not to deny my involvement. I told him I had nothing to do with the other boy. The interrogator repeated the same questions again and again for about an hour and I did not confess to anything. During the interrogation the interrogator verbally abused me and called my sister a "whore" and called me "a son of a whore".

 

At the end of the interrogation the interrogator told me to sign a document in Hebrew and I immediately signed it although I did not understand what it said. I signed because I was scared. Then they took my photograph and my fingerprints and took me back to the room where I was with the other boy.

 

I remained in the room until around 1:30 a.m. when I was transferred with the other boy to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken to Section 13.

 

On 16 April 2016, I was told I had a military court hearing and that I was going to be released on bail. At around 3:00 p.m. I was taken to a jeep at the entrance of the prison where I was handed over to my parents who told me they had to pay NIS 2,000. I was also told my next military court hearing was on 10 July 2016, but then they told me it was adjourned. The lawyer then told me he was going to close the file and that there would be no more hearings.