Once scorned wood-fired neighborhood bakery oven now crucial lifeline….

With Gaza’s only power plant shut down due to an Israeli-imposed fuel shortage, Gazans head to old neighborhood bakeries to secure their most basic staple -bread. Just hours after an airstrike hit the central Gaza City Zeitoun neighborhood on Friday, residents brought their home-prepared loaves to Abu Saleh’s bakery. His often scorned wood-fired oven is now essential for Zeitoroun residents who had come to rely on the gas-fired and electric stoves in their kitchens for everyday baking. Despite the hardships and loss of life imposed by war, the communal bread-baking brings the neighborhood together.