The Israeli Prisons Service announced that a Palestinian detainee at the Ramon Prison in Southern Israel was caught by Israeli guards while trying to smuggle a bottle of another prisoner’s sperm on Tuesday, reported news agency ANI.

The bottle was reportedly found hidden on a Palestinian who stays in a correctional facility outside of the Ramon Prison walls.

The report said that the prisoner who provided the sperm was identified and placed in solitary confinement.

According to the report, the issue of babies born to prisoners from smuggled sperm is a sensitive Palestinian topic.

"More than 100 babies are said to have been conceived by semen smuggled out of Israeli prisons," said the report.

Reportedly, the wives of the prisoners impregnate themselves through in the process vitro fertilization.

However, using the process and being successful in it i.e., by conceiving a baby through this process costs at least $10,000, or sometimes even more.

The report further stated that the Palestinian clinics have been known to provide IVF services pro bono if the prisoner is serving a long-term sentence.

The first Palestinian baby was reportedly conceived and born this way in 2012.

The report said the Israelis tend to view these children as illegitimate, stating the sperm cannot survive the journey from prison to clinic unless under special conditions, and that the children are usually the product of another father.

(Source-ANI)