For the Love of Ice Cream: Al-Arousa Factory in Gaza Switches to Winter Mode – PHOTOS

By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza

Youngsters anticipate the arrival of the winter ice cream as a lot as they stay up for the return of the unique ice cream in the beginning of the summer time. 

It’s the little joys of life in besieged Gaza that preserve folks right here going, day after day, regardless of quite a few obstacles. 

Youngsters, a supply of pleasure themselves, lead their very own lives, discovering pleasure within the little issues: Leaping in puddles of water on unpaved roads, taking part in conceal and search, and every time their households’ budgets permit, acquiring as a lot ice cream as doable. 

However that is the top of the ice cream season in Gaza, and the beginning of a brand new one, the winter ice cream. 

Youngsters anticipate the arrival of the winter ice cream as a lot as they stay up for the return of the unique ice cream in the beginning of the summer time. 

“The winter ice cream is manufactured from cream and chocolate and we often begin producing them in September till the top of the spring,” Ghazi Mushtaha, director of the Al-Arousa manufacturing unit, advised The Palestine Chronicle.

The Al-Arousa manufacturing unit in Gaza is without doubt one of the few companies that produce such merchandise.

Preserving the operation going regardless of the Israeli financial blockade, thus lack of repairs or new machines is not any straightforward activity. Quite a few factories and small companies shut down in Gaza through the years. 

Al-Arousa is a type of who, by some means, managed to remain in operation.

The winter desserts are often offered within the well-known ‘sambo’ bins. On account of their low worth, they’re inexpensive to most individuals within the Strip. 

Mushtaha defined that the manufacturing unit employs dozens of Gazan employees, serving to them present for his or her households. 

Whereas for Musthaha it is a story of perseverance, and for his employees a narrative of survival, for the kids in Gaza, it’s about one thing else fully: the love of ice cream. 

(All Photographs: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) 

– Mahmoud Ajjour is a Gaza-based photojournalist. He’s the Palestine Chronicle’s correspondent within the Gaza Strip.