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2012  Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- Someone is pounding on the
door. It is 3:45 a.m. The pounding gets louder. The father goes
to open the door, and immediately they enter: two men dressed in
civilian clothes, flanked by police officers bearing heavy guns.
They go straight towards the boy, who has pulled on a baggy
sweatshirt and stepped out of his room, snake their hands under
his arms, and take him. “He will only be gone for a few hours,”
they say. “Don’t worry.” Outside the house, the boy’s hands are
tied with plastic packaging bands and he is pushed into the
police car. He does not understand much Hebrew, but he knows
enough to understand the officer who leans close to him and
whispers:  “Fuck your mother.”  30 days later, after being
beaten with a chair, held in solitary confinement, taunted with
a knife, forced to stay awake, and otherwise abused, the boy is
released from prison. He