A Palestinian woman gave birth to quadruplets conceived in vitro thanks to her husband’s sperm that was smuggled out of the Israeli jail where he has been held for 15 years, his family told AFP on Tuesday.
Ahmad Shamali, 37, was jailed in Nafha prison (south) in 2008 for attempted murder, the Israeli prison administration told AFP.
His wife gave birth to three sons and a daughter at East Jerusalem’s Makased hospital, where she was rushed to due to her complicated pregnancy, before returning to Shajaya, west of Gaza City, on Sunday, the mother said. of the prisoner, Najah Shamali.
After two unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization, “my son, a prisoner, was lucky enough to have quadruplets after clandestinely taking sperm out of jail,” she added, without specifying how the sperm was transported. The Israeli prison administration did not want to comment on this information for now.
Mother of two teenagers conceived when her husband was free, Um Ubeida Shamali, 34, gave birth seven months into the pregnancy and the newborns were in hospital for 45 days, her mother-in-law told AFP, while she cooed to two of the kids.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, 122 children were born thanks to clandestine sperm that came out of Israeli prisons since 2012.
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