Based on studies done by DCI, all children confess to the allegations put to them by Israeli military personnel during a lengthy and violent interrogation period. Interrogation periods were reported to occur from between 2 hours to intermittently over three weeks.

 

Children experienced continuous beating during the arrest and transfer to an interrogation centre. The majority of children were arrested at their homes in the dark hours of the early morning by armed Israeli military personnel who used forced entry on and the conducted a search of the family home.

 

In April 2007 at 2 am, three armored vehicles carrying 12 heavily armed Israeli military soldiers, stormed a house in al Aroub refugee camp and dragged 16 year old Fathi from his bed while his family was held at gun point upstairs. When his father begged to know why they were taking Fathi the Captain replied with personal insults and no explanation was given.

 

Six days after the abduction, the family received a call from a Palestinian DCI (Defence for Children International) lawyer with information from the Red Cross saying Fathi was in being held in Ofer Prison. He was tried in an Israeli military court and convicted of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. He was imprisoned in an Israeli adult prison for 2 months and fined 2000 shekels. His family were not allowed contact with him from the time of arrest.