Israeli airstrike blamed for death of 4,000 frozen embryos aleteia.org

Israel’s military action to root out Hamas from the Gaza Strip has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities.

Add to that another 4,000.

That’s the number of frozen embryos stored in a Gaza IVF clinic who apparently died as a result of an Israeli shelling.

Reuters reported Wednesday that amid the shelling of Gaza City in December, one explosion blasted the lid off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored at Gaza’s largest fertility clinic. The temperature of the nitrogen in the tanks needed to be kept below -180 degrees Celsius. The military activity in the area prevented clinic officials from getting there and checking on the tanks.

“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 unfertilized eggs stored at Gaza City’s Al Basma IVF center,” Reuters reported…

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