TWINS BORN IN BETHLEHEM FROM SMUGGLED SPERM OF PALESTINIAN PRISONER

         Bethlehem, 22 Muharram 1435/26 November 2013  (MINA) – For the first time in Bethlehem, the wife of a Palestinian prisoner delivered two healthy twins after successful fertilization using sperm smuggled from her jailed husband.

         Addressing Ahmad al-Mughrabi from Duheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem, she told Ma’an TV: “Congratulations! Now you have two beautiful baby girls. In spite of all, now you have a family of three, the two baby girls and Mahmoud.”

          She added that she was very happy with “this accomplishment in defiance of occupation,” Maan News Agency reported as monitored by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA), tuesday (26/11).

         In September, Israel denied family visits to the father of a baby conceived using sperm smuggled out of an Israeli jail, the Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies said.

         In July, the wife of that prisoner, Abdul Kareem al-Rimawi, gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 2.8 kg at the Razan Medical Center in Nablus.

         Majd was conceived at the Razan clinic by IVF using sperm smuggled from her jailed husband, in the second such birth of its kind.

         Israeli occupation prison administration claims that al-Rimawi had no children registered before his arrest and therefore his status as a father will not be recognized, (T/P012/E1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)