I was asleep when Israeli soldiers arrested one of our neighbours at around 2:00 a.m. My father was awake and he heard them mention my name as if they were looking for me so he came and woke me up. About 10 minutes later the soldiers banged at our front door.

 

When my father answered the door the soldiers told him they wanted to arrest me. They did not tell my father why they wanted to arrest me or where they were going to take me. They did not give us any documents either.

 

They immediately took me outside where some military jeeps were waiting. A soldier asked me to take off my trousers and my shirt and I remained in my underwear until they searched my clothes. Then they tied my hands to the back with two plastic ties connected to each other. The ties were very painful. They also blindfolded me. Some soldiers beat me hard and pushed me to the ground. They kicked and slapped me really hard. Then they pushed me into the back of a jeep and made me sit on the floor.

 

The jeep drove for about five minutes inside the village and then stopped and the soldiers brought in a dog into the jeep. The dog was muzzled but it kept sniffing me and I was scared. The dog remained inside the jeep the whole time.

 

The jeep drove for about 30 minutes to the settlement of Etzion where I was put in a shipping container where I remained with another detainee. A soldier was guarding us. At a certain point I could no longer tolerate the blindfold and managed to pull it down a bit. A soldier noticed this and slapped and kicked me hard and fixed the blindfold. Then I tried to fall asleep but the soldier slapped me and prevented me from sleeping. When I snoozed a bit he poured water on my face to wake me up. When I asked him to loosen the ties he tied them even tighter.

 

I was then examined by a doctor who removed the blindfold and asked me if I had any illnesses. When the doctor was done a soldier blindfolded me again and took me to an interrogation room. By then I think it was around noon.

 

The interrogator removed the blindfold and immediately accused me of throwing stones and pipe bombs at soldiers. He did not inform me of any rights. When I asked him to present me with evidence he told me the best evidence was all the confessions against me and started to name all the people who he said had confessed against me. I asked him to confront me with all these people but he said he wasn’t going to confront me with anyone. He then told me it was in my interest to confess and that if I didn’t he was going to cancel my father’s work permit and would lock me up in prison for a long time.

 

The interrogator, who told me his name was "Moshe", interrogated me for about two hours. At the end of the interrogation he asked me whether I wanted to speak to a lawyer. I asked him to call my father who knows a lawyer. He called my father and told him I was detained at Etzion. He told him to appoint a lawyer for me. He then printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did without understanding what it said.

 

He then took me to see another interrogator who asked me whether I was thinking of stabbing a soldier and I said no. The second interrogator interrogated me for about an hour and asked me some general questions. He then took me to a courtyard and made me sit on the ground until around 5:00 p.m. I was blindfolded the whole time. A soldier who spoke fluent Arabic was there. He kept telling me I was a fucker and that he wanted to stick his foot in my ass. He did not allow me to use the toilet or to drink water.

 

My father then came to the police station and the interrogator told him he wasn’t going to release me until my father paid a fine of NIS 1,000. He claimed the reason for the fine was that I missed a court hearing from a previous arrest which I was not informed of and my lawyer never told me I had a hearing. My father paid the amount at a post office near the police station and I was released at around 6:00 p.m. I went home with my father and we arrived home at around 6:30 p.m.