Eleven days of relentless Israeli attacks has caused heavy damage to Gaza s factories and farmland. Palestinian employees work at the Al-Arees ice cream factory in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 7, 2012. - SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images
May 21, 2021
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sami al-Ghazali, the owner of the Maatoug Booza Factory, never thought that his investments in the local ice cream business in Gaza’s supposedly safe industrial zone would vanish in a blink of an eye. But on May 17, his factory was bombed by Israeli artillery shells and completely destroyed.
“I invested more than $500,000 to establish the factory in a safe area far from any potential Israeli attack,” Ghazali told Al-Monitor.