The humanitarian worker has declared that “it has been a very painful experience”.
The Spanish humanitarian worker Juana Ruiz has been released from prison in Israel today 10 months after being jailed, and after receiving a conditional release that will allow her to finish serving her sentence at her home in the Occupied West Bank.
“Surely there will be a lot to tell but right now the only thing I need is a little rest and recover morally and physically as well and be with my family again,” he told the Spanish media at the Israeli military post in Jenin, where he went. transferred by the Israeli prison service after leaving Damon prison today, in the northern city of Haifa, where she was serving a sentence.
An Israeli military court sentenced Ruiz, 63, on November 17, after she accepted a plea deal to reduce her sentence from five to two charges: “providing services to an illegal organization” and “receiving money and smuggle it” into the West Bank, because of his work with a Palestinian NGO that Israel considers illegal.
Visibly moved and impatient to meet them, she thanked them for the support she received and said “she still doesn’t understand” what happened.
“If it is not an occupation that they come to your house at five in the morning to take you to interrogate you without knowing why or what for”, she has expressed about her arrest, and has recounted that she was detained by “25 soldiers, in a house with three people over 60 years old, old”.
“That we do not harm anyone,” she conveyed about her arrest on April 13 at her residence in Beit Sahur, in the West Bank, where she is based and has worked since 1986 as a project coordinator for the Health Work Committees (HWC in its acronym in English).
Ruiz will finish serving his sentence at his home in Beit Sahur, near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, next May, and hopes to go to Spain to spend a long time with his family and friends.
It took 24 days from her arrest without charge until the Israeli Military Prosecutor’s Office formalized an indictment, after which she was sentenced to 13 months in prison and fined 14,000 euros.
Source: Eitb
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