Thursday, September 4, 2025, 9:47 A 17-year-old Yehuda and Shomron resident was detained at the beginning of the week by the GSS and is being held under harsh conditions. He is not allowed to meet with an attorney. His mother shared a video clip describing his remand and sharply criticizing the GSS. The son, A., was detained by police officers with guns drawn: “Last Saturday night [after Shabbat], at two in the morning, there were threatening knocks on the door. A delegation of officers entered. Some of them were masked, and some of them held cocked weapons. They said that they had a search warrant for the house and also a detention warrant for my son. They asked me where he was. I took them to the children’s bedroom. They took him from his bed, searched the room, turned over the bed, turned over the shelves, and left the room in utter disarray. They took him to a car and explained to him that none of us may walk with him, and none of us may speak to him.
17-year-old GSS detainee’s mother (Hebrew); Video courtesy of the detainee’s mother
A.’s mother expressed her concerns about the harsh interrogation: “They extended his remand, they extended the order prohibiting him from meeting with an attorney, and he has not yet seen an attorney. They aren’t letting us see him, or bring him his tefilin or anything. We have no idea what they’re doing to him. All in all, he’s a Jerusalem boy who was supposed to start his bagrut studies this week. Instead of that, he’s sitting in a GSS dungeon. We have no idea what they’re doing to him. I think that the brutal way that they they treat him is appropriate for terrorists. It’s embarrassing, and it feels very, very political.
“I ask everyone who can, first of all, to raise this painful subject in public discourse. This isn’t right, and we are not supposed to put up with this kind of treatment in our daily lives. My son is an innocent citizen, a good citizen, a 17-year-old minor. There is a basic law granting a citizen the right to meet with an attorney and understand what he is being accused of. Why is that right not being honored? Why is it impossible to meet with my son? What are they trying to hide?”