﻿ Personal Stories « Combatants For Peace Suliman al-Khatib  I
joined the “Fatah” movement at the age of 12, and was involved
in various actions, such as throwing stones, writing slogans,
preparing Molotov Cocktails. This was in 1986, before the first
Intifada. As Chen pointed out, it is very possible that people
who are sitting here today were harmed by my actions. At the age
of 14, I stabbed Israeli soldiers with a friend of mine. We were
arrested. I was sentenced to 15 years in jail and my friend to
18 years. For the first two years, I was in the children’s
section in the Hebron jail, where the management and staff were
extremely tough. Settlers from Kiryat Arba were among the jail
staff, which made the situation more difficult and enhanced the
suffering. There were many problems in this jail. For example,
often there was a lack of drinking water, and of course there
was not enough water for showers. Hitting prisoners, spraying
tear gas into prison cells, and stripping prisoners were daily
occurrences. Lat