Arrests are something the police usually does, right?In the [occupied] territories, only the military does it.

I mean the practice of arrests in general.Yes, it comes from the world of policing, not from the military world.

What law are you enforcing?You’re not, you’re just the contractor of the law enforcement, but you have no idea what the laws are. The laws of the military system – you’re handed down these orders, you’re going to arrest so-and-so today. You don’t decide.

And do you know what laws you’re enforcing?I have no idea. I don’t know, for instance, even when it’s a person who has a weapon and he’s shot at people, which is obviously illegal, but you don’t know because it’s not a law. You’re not enforcing a law. You’re executing orders. Enforcement isn’t the right term, even though you’re arresting [people] and that.

There are laws that, from what I understand from you and other soldiers, I can get arrested for if I’m a Palestinian.Right.

Where do I see these laws?I think you learn it first hand, it’s trial and error. I think that in principle if you’re a Palestinian, there’s a high probability you’ll be arrested at some point in your life. It happens all the time, it happens everywhere daily, for nonsense.

It’s a little strange to think that a lot of your time is spent arresting people who committed certain offenses, but you yourself don’t know what’s allowed and what isn’t, as the person who’s enforcing it.Yes, we don’t have a rulebook in front of us that... And we also don’t know what happens to these people afterward. It could be the case that you arrest someone and he’s released the next day, it could be the case that he’s still in jail, you have no idea.