Gaza Prisoner's Wife Impregnated Via Sperm Smuggled From Jail
With many married Palestinian prisoners unable to have children because they are separated from their wives, some are resorting to in-vitro fertilization after smuggling their sperm samples from prison.
After six years of detention in Israeli prisons, Tamer succeeded in getting his wife, Hana, pregnant by smuggling his sperm out of prison. It was the first such scheme in the Gaza Strip, after five others involving the West Bank.
When Hana al-Za’anin, 26, found out that she was pregnant, she couldn’t hold back her tears. She was happy for her pregnancy but sad that her husband, Tamer al-Za’anin, 28, has been behind bars in Israel for nearly six years.
Hana held up the results of her pregnancy test to the shouts of joy by the women around her as they hugged, kissed and congratulated her. She then offered everyone sweets.
The idea of getting pregnant in this way was proposed by Hana’s neighbor. And when Hana found out that it had succeeded in the West Bank, she consulted her mother-in-law and, by phone, her incarcerated husband about the matter.
