I was outside a restaurant on the main road chatting with my friend. It was around 9:00 p.m. I was sitting on a motorbike when all of a sudden a group of Israeli soldiers surrounded us. One soldier asked me whether the bike was stolen. He asked my friend to switch it on but he didn’t know how.

 

At this point the soldiers beat me and my friend and handcuffed my hands behind my back with metal handcuffs. Then they searched me and pushed me into the back of a military jeep where a soldier told me to sit on a metal box on the floor although there were available seats. The soldiers started to sing but the commander told them to stop. One of the soldiers rode the motorbike behind the jeep we were in.

 

On the way soldiers beat and swore at me. When we arrived at a roundabout near Al Jalama checkpoint, a group of young men pelted the jeep with stones because they realised the soldiers were making arrests.

 

When the jeep arrived at Al Jalama checkpoint I was taken to a room and made to sit on the floor. There were two other detainees with me. Then they asked for my identity card but I told them I did not have a card yet because of my age. Then they asked my friend to call our parents to get our identity card numbers. Then I was taken to another room where they checked my name against a list before I was taken back to the first room. I remained in the room on the floor where I was shackled. I was allowed to use the toilet. The soldiers did not allow me and my friend to talk to each other and I was not able to sleep at all.

 

At around 4:00 a.m. I was shackled and handcuffed to my friend’s shackles and handcuffs. They were tight. Then we were taken to a police car and driven to the police station in Ariel settlement. We arrived at Ariel at around 7:00 a.m. On the way the police car picked up some food but we were not offered any.

 

On arrival at Ariel I was examined by a doctor who asked me some questions about my health. I was still tied and shackled to my friend. After the examination I was separated from my friend and I was handcuffed to the front. Then I was taken for interrogation at around 7:30 a.m.

 

I was alone in the room with the interrogator who spoke broken Arabic. He was typing on a computer. He started to question me without informing me of any rights. He asked me where I was arrested and whether I ran away from the soldiers. Then he wanted to know whose motorbike it was and I told him it wasn’t mine. I told him I didn't know whose motorbike it was.

 

After a while the interrogator phoned my mother and told her I needed a lawyer and that my hearing in the military court would be at 8:00 a.m. on the following day. He allowed me to speak to my mother who tried to reassure me and not to worry. Then the interrogator took my photograph and fingerprints. I was then asked to sign two copies of my statement: one was in Hebrew and the other in Arabic. I signed my name without reading the document. The interrogation lasted about an hour.

 

After the interrogation I was taken to a room where I remained with my friend. At around midnight the soldiers made us sign release documents. We remained in the room where I slept until around 5:00 a.m. the next day. The room was very small and had a small window high up in the wall. They brought me some food but I found it unappetizing and couldn’t eat it.

 

At around 5:00 a.m. I was taken to Salem military court but I was driven via Megiddo. I recognised the prison because I used to visit my father there. At Salem I waited until around 3:30 p.m. when I was taken into court. My uncle and my mother were in court and my lawyer too. The hearing lasted for about 10 minutes. The lawyer told us we had to pay a fine of NIS 1,000 in order to be released in addition to another NIS 500 for his fees. The lawyer said the motorbike was stolen but I would get the money back, but we never did. The military judge told me if I am ever arrested again I would spend two months in prison.

 

We paid the amount and I was released on 22 September 2016, at around 4:30 p.m. My mother told me she found it hard to sleep during my detention because she was very worried about me.