What Can Be Done Immediately for Tzippy?

Apparently, Tzippy has been freed, but Deli Landau has not. Please call on behalf of Deli.

On Wednesday morning, Mrs. Deli Landau, mother of 11, drove from Hebron to Kiryat Arba with a number of children in her car. At the entrance to Kiryat Arba a policeman stopped the car and asked her if she was from Hebron.

When she replied positively, he demanded to see her identification card. She responded, 'if you only demand IDs from people in Hebron, your purposes are political' and continued driving into the community. A couple of minutes later a police van, following her, called on her to stop and park. Police then started yelling at her that she had tried to run down a police officer, a charge which she vehemently denied. The policeman, looking into her car, demanded that two of her older children, Yedidya, 18 and Ditza, 17, identify themselves. When they refused, they were arrested.

Deli was then taken to the Kiryat Arba police station and interrogated, charged with: attacking a police officer (reduced from the initial charge of attempting to run him over), for trying to pour water on police issuing expulsion orders two weeks earlier, and for rioting.

The police then officially arrested her and sent her, together with her year and a half old infant son Yehuda Tzvi (who is sick with spastic bronchitis) to the Neve Tirza women's prison, where she spent the night. The police conveniently forgot to provide her with food, both for her and for her baby, all day.

The next day Deli was taken to court, where the prosecutor, claiming that she is 'dangerous' and 'a threat' be held in prison until the conclusion of all proceedings against her. At the last minute the judge agreed to allow her to remain under house arrest at her parent's home in Jerusalem until Tuesday, when a final decision will be issued as to whether she will be remanded in prison.

It should be noted that Deli Landau, a Hebron resident for 21 years, hasn't any criminal record, and is a profession medic who travels with almost all Hebron women by ambulance to Jerusalem when they are in labor before they give birth.

DROP EVERYTHING-MAKE CALLS & FAXES NOW! To KEEP TZIPPY SHLISSEL AND DELI LANDAU FREE!!

Hebron police:

02-9969-444 or 9969-473/ 86/ 96/ 62

Chaya Peri spokeswoman
02-666-2301
fax 02-6666230333
beeper 03-6106666 #24404

­Ministry of internal affairs
Tel 2-5309980
fax 2-5308500, 02-5309980

Kal Aharonishky:
tel 02-5308100
fax 02-5308118

TELL THEM WE WILL NEVER TOLERATE VIOLENCE TOWARD WOMEN AND CHILDREN.