I was at an arrest of a 16-year-old youth who apparently threw stones. I don’t remember exactly why we arrested him. It was in the center of Nablus. We got the wrong house, we broke into another one.

What does that mean? The center of Nablus has big structures. So we went in through a staircase on the wrong side. We went up to the same floor of the adjacent house. We knocked for an hour, no one answered. They broke into the house. No one was there. The house was totally empty. After they searched the house, they understood there was a mistake and they just left.

How did they break in?They simply broke down the door, kicked it in.

Did the door remain in tact or was it destroyed? It was broken, off the hinges. The whole story with the first apartment took half an hour or 20 minutes. We moved onto the next house and then riots started, there was a strong scent of smoke. There was the moment when we took him [the youth], he wasn’t wearing shoes so his brother had to put them on him while he was handcuffed. It was two shin Bet officers, they were pretty violent, mostly verbally, very aggressive. They pushed him up against the wall, didn’t let him put his shoes on himself, only let his brother put his shoes on for him, asked him tons of questions, to ensure it was him.

How old was he? 16.

Was there another procedure because of it? Did one of the parents have to accompany him? No, nothing of the sort. When he came down, he really screamed to his mother. You’re actually taking a 16 year old from his home. The entire family was pretty shocked. The mother cried, the kid cried a lot. We had to take him downstairs with eyes covered, each of us on either side of him because he couldn’t walk alone. We tried a little bit to calm him down and tell him no one would touch him. The idea was to make him understand that we wouldn’t do anything to him, and then they take him to the regional brigade.