The Israeli military now offers bereaved families the option to have doctors retrieve and preserve the sperm of deceased soldiers, a technology that was not used frequently before the Israel-Hamas war. More than 200 cases of posthumous sperm retrievals have been recorded in Israel since the start of the war, with 81% done at the request of parents. Some Israeli biomedical experts argue that posthumous sperm retrieval violates the medical autonomy of the soldiers and will create a generation of children born without ever having had a living father. Others argue that the desires of the bereaved should be privileged over the unknown wishes of the dead.