A picnic of Nabeel Masalwa family his wife brothers and son on the mountains of Hebron His wife Samaher had a new baby called Kareem born through Ivf...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Hebron, Palestine - October 3, 2016: A picnic of Nabeel Masalwa (47) family, his wife, brothers and son, on the mountains of Hebron. His wife Samaher (40) had a new baby called Kareem (2) born through Ivf. Nabeel was sentences to 23 years in jail. This picture is important because it shows how the other men of the detainee's family are trying to cover the absence of the father taking care of kids born through IVF. \"u201cHabibi\" is the story of Palestinian prisoners\"u2019 wives who have turned to sperm smuggling in order to conceive children through in vitro fertilization (IVF) from their husbands who are serving long-term sentences in Israeli jails. In the past 3 years, 60 babies have been born this way. There are around 7,000 Palestinians, classified as \"security prisoners\"u201d, facing sentences of 25 years or more. Israel detains them if their alleged or convicted offenses are deemed threats, or potential threats, to national security. Conjugal visits are denied, Palestinian prisoners see their immediate family for just 45 minutes every two weeks, if at all. While kept physically separated from visiting spouses and adults, inmates can play with their children for ten minutes at the end of each session. During these short visitations, some of the prisoners have smuggled sperm to their kids. This is one of the methods used, but not the only one, however, is the only known at the moment. Fertility clinics in the occupied territories increasingly offer IVF treatment to prisoners' wives free of charge. The Razan fertility clinic in Nablus and the al Basma fertility clinic in Gaza have frozen numerous sperm samples recently smuggled from behind bars. Women in the \"u201cIVF\"u201d program believe that one day the prisoners will be released, and when they do return home, they should have a family waiting for them.\"u201d (Photo by Antonio Faccilongo/Getty Images Reportage)", "Image Copyright": "2016 Antonio Faccilongo"}