IVF births in Gaza Strip are on the rise and many doctors argue that growing infertility in the region is linked to the protracted Israel-Palestine conflict
The hangar is filled to the brim and the agitation is palpable. More than 6,000 couples from every corner of the Gaza Strip joined the contest. Only a hundred will be chosen. On one side, men smoke and laugh, their gaze fixed on the organisers. Across from them are women covered in long cloaks, enjoying trays full of sweet and savory snacks with hesitance. Someone makes a call for silence and a young man walks up the stage and starts picking little notes from a bowl.
It was 1996, when Doctor Baha al Ghalayini – the Director of the Gaza Strip’s most famous al Basma IVF clinic – returned home after four years in the UK, where he met Patrick Steptoe, the founding father of the first ‘test-tube babies’, and started dedicating himself to that remarkable invention. It took him 10 years to convince the religious authorities, concerned that Muslim women's eggs may get mixed with sperm different from their husbands', of the benefits of IVF.
It's not at all clear whether Omar already knew the truth back then, because he doesn't want to talk about it. But three years later when he collected 2,200 euros from relatives and friends for the in vitro fertilisation, which eventually failed, the medical exams couldn't be clearer: it was him who was infertile.
While it's true that the birth rate is still high, in the Strip there's been a significant increase in the number of infertility cases amongst men.
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