Essential supplies such as summer clothes and contact lens solution were being withheld from Yana Gorelik, her family said Sunday. The 30-year-old Israeli-Canadian was arrested for being an IDF deserter upon entering the country early last week.
The IDF spokesperson unit said it had received no complaints from the family and that Gorelik would meet with the officer in charge of her well-being while in prison and have the opportunity to request missing supplies and issue her complaints, Maariv reported.
Gorelik moved with her parents to Canada at age 17 and had visited Israel several times over the last two years without a problem. However, she was stopped on entry last week and asked to sort out her official release from the IDF, but was later “humiliated” by being handcuffed and sent to the Neve Tirza detention center in Ramle.
Gorelik said the authorities treated her like
