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How Israeli families are making fathers of their dead

How Israeli families are making fathers of their dead

In the eight months following the Hamas terrorist attack, sperm has been retrieved from around 170 young men in Israel.

Iris Haim, left, pictured with the parents of other hostages in the month following the October 7 attack by Hamas, when her son Yotam was still alive. Getty

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Iris Haim remembers the day the Israel Defence Forces came knocking with news about her missing son.

Yotam, a heavy metal drummer who was kidnapped from their kibbutz in southern Israel, had been shot dead in Gaza.

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