Palestinian man half way through a 27-year prison sentence in Israel becomes a father after smuggling his sperm out of jail to his wife

• Huwayda al-Sokani gave birth to twins after her husband smuggled his sperm out of an Israeli jail

A Palestinian man 13 years into a 27-year sentence in an Israeli prison has managed to become a father after he smuggled sperm out to impregnate his wife.

Ahmed al-Sokani, 35, from Gaza reportedly told fellow inmates that even if he couldn't escape, he still intended to become a father without the aid of a conjugal visit.

According to reports from the Gaza Strip, al Sokani's wife Huwayda gave birth this week to twins named Motaz and Siwar.

 

According to Abdullah Qandil, a spokesman for the Waed Captive and Liberators Society, a Palestinian non-governmental organisation, some 50 children have been born this way - 10 of them in the Gaza Strip and 40 in the West Bank.

According to Huwayda, the birth of Motaz and Siwar represents a 'message of victory' from all Palestinian detainees languishing in Israeli prisons.

Holding the newborn twins at Gaza City's Al-Quds Hospital, she told Anadolu Agency (AA), a state-run press agency in Turkey: 'I can't put my happiness into words.'
Source: DAILYMAIL UK