The wife of a Palestinian prisoner held in Israel gave birth to twins from her husband's smuggled sperm on Saturday, Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights said.
Roula Muhammad Abd al-Ghani gave birth to the twins, named Zaid and Zein, at Arab Specialized Hospital in Nablus.
Her husband Muhammad, 44, managed to smuggle his sperm out of prison in the beginning of the year, circumventing an Israeli ban on conjugal visits for the more than 7,000 Palestinians being held in prison, the Center said in a statement.
Muhammad is currently serving a life sentence in Israeli jail.
Abd al-Ghani told Ahrar that she considers the birth a victory, saying it shows that "Israel cannot break our will and power."
"I encourage every prisoner's wife to do the same," she said.
Razan Medical Center for Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization does the procedures, and pays the expenses for delivery "as a religious, national, ethical, and social responsibility" towards prisoners and their wives, the statement said.
There have been 19 cases of childbirth from sperm smuggled from Israeli jails -- 17 of them in the West Bank and two of them in Gaza, according to Ahrar.
Nine women are currently pregnant from prison-smuggled sperm, the statement said.
