During searches, interrogations were somewhat aggressive, but this was due to time pressure. You wanted to get as many details as possible from the first person you took out of the house – whether the person you're looking for is present inside. The technique varied among different interrogators. Some people react to physical pressure, others do not. In some cases, interrogators slapped a guy and he wouldn't answer and that was that. In other cases, they wouldn't touch him. The handling of people coming out of the house is aggressive. I don't mean bating them, making them lie down. I mean being decisive, directing them to do what I want. You want to make the search as quick as possible, and take them to a concentrated site as fast as possible, and not to let them talk. So you lead the person away from the house, make him sit on the ground in a position you want him to assume, and you talk to him assertively. I have kept watch over people coming out of a house, a woman with small children. There was no violence but there was aggressive speech, because there was a lot of shooting towards the force. You now had to explain to the woman that, if she doesn't talk, she'll get shot from guys around us, not from us – from the terrorists. Your aim is always to finish this as quickly as possible. The longer you stay on the spot, the greater your problem. Aggressive handling is better in such a case, although every person dragged out of his house reacts differently. Most of the forces I have worked with had very good human relations – let's call it that – towards women, children and the elderly. Some questionings were aggressive, violent.

To what degree?Mostly slapping, perhaps a knee-kick to someone's leg, not to the extent that anyone was wounded. Again, mostly, when you approach such a house with an interrogator, you know that this house is significant. It's not just any house and all those people are certainly not brought to you for nothing. They know it, you know it, and they know that can't play around with this too long. For, they know that their house will be targeted and whatever is to be found will be found.