first two times I was imprisoned it didn’t affect me at all. However, the third time it affected me so much because it was the first time I got imprisoned after I was married. I couldn’t stop worrying about my children. I couldn’t stop thinking of how much they needed me, especially my three-month-old daughter. One of my sons now doesn’t leave me alone at all because he’s afraid that I will go away again and never come back. I’ve seen women in prison who were separated from their children for ten years. I am thankful I was separated from my children for only 14 days. I was not physically tortured. But psychologically I was completely devastated.” Former female prisoner, Yatta, West Bank Interview: 23 November 2016 Israel has used the arrest and incarceration of women as a tool to suppress wider resistance in two ways. First, they have displayed an interest in “target[ing] and arrest[ing] women that are active in human rights issues, particularly female activists on issues concerned with prisoners and female prisoners in the occupation prison.”279 This can be seen as a tactic to deter women from participating in political activity and activism. Second, they have also targeted women married to men that are involved in politics or resistance purely in order to place pressure on their husbands to cooperate with Israel. By threatening to harm the women, Israel has found a useful way to break or coerce male activists.280 279 Ibid. 280 MIFTAH, Fact Sheet – Palestinian Prisoners, op. cit., last update: June 2012 77