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August 14, 2012
Palestinian inmate sneaks out sperm to impregnate wife
Baby boy is "dream come true" for Palestinian prisoner who sneaked out sperm sample to wife
A baby boy was born by Caesarean section late on Sunday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife.
Baby Mohannad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank, whose husband Ammar is serving 27 life sentences in an Israeli prison.
It was Ammars idea, and I agreed to it [to have a test-tube baby], and thank God, we were blessed, the mother told Gulf News on Tuesday afternoon.
This is the third attempt, and thank God, it worked out,
I am very, very happy. Praised be the God, we have now Mohannad after this long separation [from my husband] and this many years in prison and injustice. I am extremely happy, she said.
Mohannad, whose name in Arabic means the sword, has two sisters, Bashaer, 16, and Bissan, 14.
Mohannad was 3.8kg when he was born late on Sunday.
He looks like his father and his elder sister, Dallal said. He has some similarities with me too.
Ammar had a very dear friend to him who was martyred in 2003. He said then, if God gives me a son, I am going to name him Mohannad. Thank God, he was given the son.
Ammar is serving 27 life terms and another 25 years for his role in fighting the Occupation
Palestinians are not permitted to receive conjugal visits, and although Dallal has not set eyes on her husband for 15 years, she says she fell pregnant after being artificially inseminated by sperm her 37-year-old husband managed to sneak out of Hadarim prison in central Israel.
Praise be to Allah who has blessed us after a long absence with my husband in prison, Dallal said shortly before going in for an elective Caesarean.
My husband and I, our two girls and the family have been waiting for this for such a long time, she said.
When Ziben, who comes from Meithalun village between Nablus and Jenin, was arrested, Bashaer was just 18 months old.
At the time, she was also five months pregnant with their second daughter, Bissan.
Dream come true
I am very happy. This is the first genuine happiness in our house for more than 15 years, said Bashaer, now 16.
When my mother told us she was going to get inseminated and give us a baby brother, we couldnt believe it, she said. We have always wanted a brother and now the dream has come true.
After the expectant mother was wheeled into the operating theatre, a group of women from the family gathered outside to wait, breaking into celebratory ululation at the first sound of a baby crying.
Standing outside the operating theatre, the proud grandmother said her son-in-law had named the baby after one of his friends who was a martyr.
Asked if the family objected to the way her daughter fell pregnant, she responded angrily.
We are honourable people who are known for our good reputation and everyone supports us, she snapped.
For her son-in-law, who no longer has any immediate family living in the Palestinian territories, having a boy gives him a way of prolonging his line, she said, explaining that his mother, father and brother had died, and that a second brother was living overseas.
Details of how the sperm was smuggled out of the prison was kept a closely guarded secret, with the family refusing to give the slightest information.
A spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said she was not aware of the pregnancy, and that security prisoners were not allowed conjugal visits, with the Palestinian Prisoners Club confirming the same information.
Visits by prisoners wives are closely supervised by prison guards and there is no way a prisoner could get time alone with his wife, said a Nablus-based spokesman.
Dr Salem Abu Al Kheizaran, head of the Razan fertility clinic in Nablus which carried out the insemination procedure, said the sperm had been subjected to a gender separation process to ensure the couple would have a son.
We received a sample of sperm from the husband in a reliable and clinically secure way, he told AFP, without going into details.
The couple wanted a baby boy, so we carried out a gender separation procedure. We tried the insemination process three times from the same sample, but the first two attempts failed, he said.
Abu Al Kheizaran said the right to have a baby was a universal human right.
For us it is a humanitarian issue everyone has the right to be a parent. Prison must not stand in the way of this right, he told AFP.
Samer Samaro from the Nablus branch of the prisoners ministry agrees.
Having the child is a prisoners right. We hope to someday reach an agreement with the Israeli side about this issue, he said.
Samaro said that even Israelis were allowed that right, including Yigal Amir, the right-wing extremist who gunned down prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995.
Amir, who was caught trying to smuggle sperm out of prison in 2006, was later given permission to artificially inseminate his wife, who gave birth to a son in 2007.
Says Samaro: Even Rabins murderer had a baby while he was in prison, so why should Palestinians be deprived of that right?
Baby Mohannad is born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian Dallal Ziben with her baby, Mohannad, who was born through artificial insemination using her husband's sperm.
Palestinian inmate sneaks out sperm to impregnate wife | GulfNews.com
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August 14, 2012
Everybody has right to be a parent — doctor says
Medic goes extra mile for Palestinian prisoner’s wife
When a Palestinian specialist in in-vitro fertilisation, Dr Salem Abu Al Kheizaran was contacted by Mohannad’s mother some five years ago to help her have a test-tube baby with her imprisoned husband, he couldn’t say no.
On the contrary, he helped her through the process.
It is the agony of prisoners’ wives — coupled with the passage of years where women reach an age where it becomes be difficult for them to become pregnant — that made Dr Abu Al Kheizaran go the extra-mile and “try the impossible to help these people, especially their wives,” he said.
As an example, a 46-year-old woman went to see the doctor as she was trying to get pregnant following the recent release of her husband from jail. When he was sent to jail, she was 20 — now her chances are slim.
“After Mrs Dallal visited me in 2006 and told me of her and Ammar’s desire to have a test-tube baby and to choose the sex of the child, I told her ‘yes, this is possible from a scientific point of view. But there are two issues you need to handle first: the religious view and bringing the sperm of the husband’.”
Religious clerics agreed to the idea, political groups, across the entire spectrum supported it, and the whole movement of Palestinian prisoners threw its weight behind it, he said.
“Society became ready to embrace such a move,” the British-educated Dr Abu Al Kheizaran told Gulf News in a telephone interview from Nablus, where he established the first centre of its kind for test-tube babies in the West Bank in 1995.
Another piece of advice was to prepare the two families, and to win support of the entire neighbourhood.
After a while, the “operation became a demand,” by the local community.
Five years later, the doctor obtained the sample, he said, without explaining how.
“Trust me, I don’t know about this. Ask me anything after I received it,”
Dr Abu Al Kheizaran commented on press reports that the sample was smuggled from the prison.
“I received the sample from the wife, in the presence of her sister and six males from her family and the husband’s family.”
“Part of the sperm was non-viable because the sample was not correctly preserved and transferred,” he said.
Yet, the doctor divided the viable part into five smaller parts, to pave the way for more attempts in case there was a need to repeat it.
In a span of one year, there were three attempts.
The third attempt saw Mohannad brought into the world on Sunday night.
“Parenthood is a right for everybody. Nobody should be deprived regardless of their race, religious and sex. This is a natural right… Now we should demand that sperm samples be transferred from prisons officially and in a scientific way, even with the help of the Red Cross. This is a right for the prisoners,” he said.
Prisoners have the right to form families, and if they can’t, we can help them to have their own families,” Dr Abu Al Kheizaran said.
Mohannad has become the first test-tube baby to be born to an imprisoned father. Three specialists, including Dr Abu Al Kheizaran attended the C-section, along with two nurses and an anaesthesiologist.
Everybody has right to be a parent
Palestinian inmate sneaks out sperm to impregnate wife
Baby boy is "dream come true" for Palestinian prisoner who sneaked out sperm sample to wife
A baby boy was born by Caesarean section late on Sunday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife.
Baby Mohannad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank, whose husband Ammar is serving 27 life sentences in an Israeli prison.
It was Ammars idea, and I agreed to it [to have a test-tube baby], and thank God, we were blessed, the mother told Gulf News on Tuesday afternoon.
This is the third attempt, and thank God, it worked out,
I am very, very happy. Praised be the God, we have now Mohannad after this long separation [from my husband] and this many years in prison and injustice. I am extremely happy, she said.
Mohannad, whose name in Arabic means the sword, has two sisters, Bashaer, 16, and Bissan, 14.
Mohannad was 3.8kg when he was born late on Sunday.
He looks like his father and his elder sister, Dallal said. He has some similarities with me too.
Ammar had a very dear friend to him who was martyred in 2003. He said then, if God gives me a son, I am going to name him Mohannad. Thank God, he was given the son.
Ammar is serving 27 life terms and another 25 years for his role in fighting the Occupation
Palestinians are not permitted to receive conjugal visits, and although Dallal has not set eyes on her husband for 15 years, she says she fell pregnant after being artificially inseminated by sperm her 37-year-old husband managed to sneak out of Hadarim prison in central Israel.
Praise be to Allah who has blessed us after a long absence with my husband in prison, Dallal said shortly before going in for an elective Caesarean.
My husband and I, our two girls and the family have been waiting for this for such a long time, she said.
When Ziben, who comes from Meithalun village between Nablus and Jenin, was arrested, Bashaer was just 18 months old.
At the time, she was also five months pregnant with their second daughter, Bissan.
Dream come true
I am very happy. This is the first genuine happiness in our house for more than 15 years, said Bashaer, now 16.
When my mother told us she was going to get inseminated and give us a baby brother, we couldnt believe it, she said. We have always wanted a brother and now the dream has come true.
After the expectant mother was wheeled into the operating theatre, a group of women from the family gathered outside to wait, breaking into celebratory ululation at the first sound of a baby crying.
Standing outside the operating theatre, the proud grandmother said her son-in-law had named the baby after one of his friends who was a martyr.
Asked if the family objected to the way her daughter fell pregnant, she responded angrily.
We are honourable people who are known for our good reputation and everyone supports us, she snapped.
For her son-in-law, who no longer has any immediate family living in the Palestinian territories, having a boy gives him a way of prolonging his line, she said, explaining that his mother, father and brother had died, and that a second brother was living overseas.
Details of how the sperm was smuggled out of the prison was kept a closely guarded secret, with the family refusing to give the slightest information.
A spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said she was not aware of the pregnancy, and that security prisoners were not allowed conjugal visits, with the Palestinian Prisoners Club confirming the same information.
Visits by prisoners wives are closely supervised by prison guards and there is no way a prisoner could get time alone with his wife, said a Nablus-based spokesman.
Dr Salem Abu Al Kheizaran, head of the Razan fertility clinic in Nablus which carried out the insemination procedure, said the sperm had been subjected to a gender separation process to ensure the couple would have a son.
We received a sample of sperm from the husband in a reliable and clinically secure way, he told AFP, without going into details.
The couple wanted a baby boy, so we carried out a gender separation procedure. We tried the insemination process three times from the same sample, but the first two attempts failed, he said.
Abu Al Kheizaran said the right to have a baby was a universal human right.
For us it is a humanitarian issue everyone has the right to be a parent. Prison must not stand in the way of this right, he told AFP.
Samer Samaro from the Nablus branch of the prisoners ministry agrees.
Having the child is a prisoners right. We hope to someday reach an agreement with the Israeli side about this issue, he said.
Samaro said that even Israelis were allowed that right, including Yigal Amir, the right-wing extremist who gunned down prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995.
Amir, who was caught trying to smuggle sperm out of prison in 2006, was later given permission to artificially inseminate his wife, who gave birth to a son in 2007.
Says Samaro: Even Rabins murderer had a baby while he was in prison, so why should Palestinians be deprived of that right?
Baby Mohannad is born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian Dallal Ziben with her baby, Mohannad, who was born through artificial insemination using her husband's sperm.
Palestinian inmate sneaks out sperm to impregnate wife | GulfNews.com
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August 14, 2012
Everybody has right to be a parent — doctor says
Medic goes extra mile for Palestinian prisoner’s wife
When a Palestinian specialist in in-vitro fertilisation, Dr Salem Abu Al Kheizaran was contacted by Mohannad’s mother some five years ago to help her have a test-tube baby with her imprisoned husband, he couldn’t say no.
On the contrary, he helped her through the process.
It is the agony of prisoners’ wives — coupled with the passage of years where women reach an age where it becomes be difficult for them to become pregnant — that made Dr Abu Al Kheizaran go the extra-mile and “try the impossible to help these people, especially their wives,” he said.
As an example, a 46-year-old woman went to see the doctor as she was trying to get pregnant following the recent release of her husband from jail. When he was sent to jail, she was 20 — now her chances are slim.
“After Mrs Dallal visited me in 2006 and told me of her and Ammar’s desire to have a test-tube baby and to choose the sex of the child, I told her ‘yes, this is possible from a scientific point of view. But there are two issues you need to handle first: the religious view and bringing the sperm of the husband’.”
Religious clerics agreed to the idea, political groups, across the entire spectrum supported it, and the whole movement of Palestinian prisoners threw its weight behind it, he said.
“Society became ready to embrace such a move,” the British-educated Dr Abu Al Kheizaran told Gulf News in a telephone interview from Nablus, where he established the first centre of its kind for test-tube babies in the West Bank in 1995.
Another piece of advice was to prepare the two families, and to win support of the entire neighbourhood.
After a while, the “operation became a demand,” by the local community.
Five years later, the doctor obtained the sample, he said, without explaining how.
“Trust me, I don’t know about this. Ask me anything after I received it,”
Dr Abu Al Kheizaran commented on press reports that the sample was smuggled from the prison.
“I received the sample from the wife, in the presence of her sister and six males from her family and the husband’s family.”
“Part of the sperm was non-viable because the sample was not correctly preserved and transferred,” he said.
Yet, the doctor divided the viable part into five smaller parts, to pave the way for more attempts in case there was a need to repeat it.
In a span of one year, there were three attempts.
The third attempt saw Mohannad brought into the world on Sunday night.
“Parenthood is a right for everybody. Nobody should be deprived regardless of their race, religious and sex. This is a natural right… Now we should demand that sperm samples be transferred from prisons officially and in a scientific way, even with the help of the Red Cross. This is a right for the prisoners,” he said.
Prisoners have the right to form families, and if they can’t, we can help them to have their own families,” Dr Abu Al Kheizaran said.
Mohannad has become the first test-tube baby to be born to an imprisoned father. Three specialists, including Dr Abu Al Kheizaran attended the C-section, along with two nurses and an anaesthesiologist.
Everybody has right to be a parent
