Faridah Ma'arouf laughed as she recalled hurrying out of the prison gates after visiting day was done, hiding a sample of her son's sperm.
"We had a taxi waiting to take us very fast,'' she said. "I thought I had to get it to the doctor quickly.'' It seems to have been a successful operation. Three months later Ma'arouf sat in an IVF clinic where the progress of her daughter-in-law's pregnancy was being monitored.
It is what could be described as the brainchild of Dr. Salim Abu Khaizaran, head of the Razan Center for Infertility in the Palestinian city of Ramallah on the West Bank. As word spread, the number of prisoners' wives waiting for the clinic to make their dreams come true has risen, hospital officials said.
