IVF

Dichen Lachman, who plays Ms. Casey/Gemma, is especially proud of this season’s heartbreaking seventh episode, “Chikhai Bardo,” which flashes back to Mark and Gemma’s once-blissful time as husband and wife, their relationship affected by miscarriages and IVF treatments.

In March this year, the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory made the accusation that Israel "intentionally attacked and destroyed the Basma IVF clinic" in a measure "intended to prevent births among Palestinians in Gaza".

Islam did have more frozen embryos stored at Al-Basma Fertility Centre, but they have now been lost and there are no IVF clinics operating left for her to try to get pregnant again.

After years of IVF treatment, she became pregnant in July 2023.

The clinic — the Coachella Valley’s only full-service fertility center and IVF lab, according to its website — had been relegated to a crime scene.