GAZA, (PIC)-- The Ahrar center for prisoner studies reported Wednesday that four Palestinian women and their husbands are incarcerated in Israeli jails and banned from seeing each other or their children, and appealed to social institutions to highlight the suffering of these families and to support them.

In a press statement received by the PIC, the center said that the four female detainees are not allowed to communicate with their detained husbands even on the phone and are not granted visitations.

The statement underlined that the hardest distress the Palestinian families can experience is the detention of both parents and leaving their children without a breadwinner.

Fuad Al-Khafsh, head of the center, stated that the IOF troops recently kidnapped the municipal member Kholoud Al Masry and her husband Ammar.

Khafsh added the three other female detainees, who are imprisoned by the Israeli occupation along with their husbands, are Nour Al-Hashlamoon and her husband Mohammad, Itaf Oleyyan and her husband Waleed Al-Hodaly, in addition to Khawla Zeitawi and her husband Jasser Abu Omar.

There are approximately 12,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, including more than 85 female detainees and 350 children.

The ministry of prisoners' affairs stated that the IOA stepped up its arbitrary arrests against Palestinian women, where it had kidnapped about 26 women since the beginning of 2008, pointing out that there are still more than 95 female prisoners in Israeli jails.

In a press statement received by the PIC, Dr. Ahmed Shweideh, the minister of prisoners' affairs, underscored that the Israeli occupation focused recently on arresting a large number of Palestinian women to destabilize the structure of the Palestinian society, weaken its morale and break their determination because Israel knows well the sensitivity of arresting women in conservative societies like Palestine.