5. Did they tell you why they arrested you from the very beginning? Only when they started interrogating me they told me why they arrested me, not the first day. When they took me from my home, they didn’t tell me why I was being arrested. 6. Were you physically tortured? Yes. They slapped me on the face, spit on me and humiliated me as if I was a trash bag. They wouldn’t let me go to the restroom unless I swept its floor, even though I was injured and couldn’t walk. They wouldn’t let me eat unless I washed the dishes. They wouldn’t let me drink water unless I cleaned everything. They wouldn’t let me get some sleep unless I cleaned my room. That was not only a physical torture, but also psychological torture. 7. Did you experience verbal abuse, humiliation and intimidation? They swore at me all the time using very bad words, which sometimes made me confront them. During the interrogation they swore at my father all the time. They would call me son of a liar or you’re a liar like your damned father. 8. Did they strip search you? Yes. Every day there was someone who inspected me. He would put pressure on my wound [on the leg] and I’d tell him not to touch my wound because it hurt me so much, but he wouldn’t listen. He would fix my body to the wall and ask me if I had cigarettes. I’d tell him that I didn’t even smoke. He’d call me a liar and accuse me of smuggling cigarettes to the other prisoners. Whenever I wanted to go somewhere, he would take away my walking stick. 9. Did they deny food or water? Yes, once. I told the soldier that I needed to eat. He yelled at me and said that I wouldn’t get food. I kept singing for two hours. He would scream at me to shut up, but I wouldn’t shut up until he brought me food. The food was disgusting. I used to only eat vegetables, bread and yogurt. 10. Did they threaten you? Yes. They threatened me saying that if I didn’t confess, they’d let me rot in prison, far away from my mother and family. He said that I would rot and mold would grow on my head. 11. Did they deny you access to the restroom? The toilet of the cells’ restroom was the squatting pan type of toilet. Because of my injury, I couldn’t use this kind of toilet. I had to beg them over and over again to let me use a modern toilet with a seat. They’d have me wait from 6 am to 3 pm until they allowed me to use the toilet. 12. Did they make you sign any papers in Hebrew? They brought a paper in Hebrew to sign. I asked them to bring me a version in Arabic. They said that there was no need to because the paper is for the lawyer. 71