We were once in the border police’s operation room, where there were three-four Palestinians they detained. They wouldn't go out to carry out arrests, they would just collect [them]. Let's say someone would behave wildly – they would detain him and bring him in. Once I was driving with myofficer and they had just picked up three Palestinians, and they were badly beaten. Adolescents, 13 or 16, thin. Their faces looked like someone beat them up and my operations room officer asked "what happened?" and the [soldiers] replied "they behaved wildly." She asked "what does that mean, behaved wildly?" and they said "yes, they tried to attack us." Almost anything can be categorized as an attempted assault. They would report to us "there were Palestinians rioting during prayers, we arrested five of them, slapped them around a bit, and that's it." That's how they would call and report things: "my friend here slapped them twice."
Were they taken to a doctor? When we would carry out arrests, the brigade or battalion doctor was supposed to check the detainees. Sometimes that wouldn't happen and sometimes it did.