We were on an arrest mission in Nablus in a huge high-rise. It took hours. I was outside, just the way we were when it was our turn to secure the force, sitting at the outside corner of the building. That's always a very boring part of it. Everyone was taken out of the building downstairs and the wanted man was found. We had a Security Services fellow with us and they also found a car with some explosives inside and blew it up. Then they took this wanted guy and got him inside the jeep. I heard people saying, "Not his face! Not his face!" and they started punching and hitting him in the stomach. Let him know what's what, punish him. When I saw this, again, instead of getting to the jeep and stopping them, I simply moved to another jeep in order not to be involved. Distance myself from this conduct. That's it, I don't know, they beat him up a bit, I don't know whether anything more happened on the way, but I remember that, in this case, later, one of the commanders heard about it and got very annoyed, and yelled at them not to do this, or something to that effect.

Why did they do it?I think that a lot of it is a combination of stress and boredom. You sit waiting for so long, on the one hand you're terrified you'd be shot at, on the other hand no one's shooting. So there is this tension about when they'll open fire, together with a certain boredom because nothing is really happening, and you're already dying for some action, for something to happen. Then a guy comes along and you've already been told he's a killer, so you beat him up.