Israeli soldiers raided our home at around 4:00 a.m. They banged loudly at our front door. My father answered and about 10 soldiers entered our home. They asked my father about me and then told him I was under arrest. They gave him a document filled out in Hebrew with details about me and where they were going to take me. 

 

The soldiers remained inside our house for about 10 minutes then took me outside where a soldier tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie. The tie was tight and painful and left a mark on my wrists. My mother followed us outside and was crying but the soldiers did not allow her to speak to me. I was also blindfolded. The soldiers then led me to the police station in Etzion settlement. We walked for about an hour. 

 

At Etzion I was taken to a room with lots of soldiers who swore at me. At around 7:00 a.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

Inside the interrogation room a soldier removed the tie and the blindfold. Then the interrogator phoned a lawyer for me. The lawyer told me I had the right to remain silent and told me not to be afraid. The interrogator was listening to the conversation which lasted about a minute.

 

The interrogator was in civilian clothes and had a voice recorder on his desk. He told me I had the right to remain silent and that I had to confess to what I had done. Then he accused me of throwing a Molotov cocktail. I denied the accusation. Then he told me my friends had confessed against me and showed me some photographs. The interrogator was calm and questioned me for about an hour. At the end I confessed. He then asked me to sign a document written in Hebrew. I signed some pages but not all.

 

Then I was taken to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, where I was strip searched before being taken to the quarantine section where I spent 11 days. Then I was taken to the minors’ section. 

 

Two days later I had my first military court hearing. It was on zoom and my mother attended. I had 11 military court hearings and at the last one I was sentenced in a plea bargain to nine months in prison and fined NIS 2,000. I also received another year in prisons suspended for three years. I accepted the bargain because they reduced my sentence from two years down to nine months. 

 

I spent my sentence at Ofer. My parents visited me three times and I called home from a telephone provided by the prison authorities once every two weeks. I also exercised and attended classes in Arabic, Hebrew and mathematics. 

 

I was given early release and released at Ofer on 19 March 2022, and I went home with my parents. We arrived home at around 9:00 p.m.