Embryos in the tanks at Gaza's largest fertility clinic were the last hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples facing infertility.
When an Israeli shell struck Gaza's largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit. As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature inside the tanks rose, destroying more than 4,000 embryos plus 1,000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilised eggs stored at Gaza City's Al Basma IVF centre.
Jaafarawi worried: "How would I complete my pregnancy? What would happen to me and what would happen to the ones inside my womb?" Her ultrasound never happened and Ghalayini closed his clinic, where an additional five of Jaafarawi's embryos were stored. As the Israeli attacks intensified, Mohammed Ajjour, Al Basma's chief embryologist, started to worry about liquid nitrogen levels in the five specimen tanks.
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