Food blogger in Gaza dishes up meals to thousands using found ingredients

Spaghetti with white sauce. Rice with milk. Lemon slushie. Since Oct. 7, Hamada Shaquora — a food blogger in Gaza — has been making authentic Palestinian recipes using ingredients from the food aid packages handed out at refugee camps, and food he can scrounge up. The videos, which include a sense of humor amidst the tragedies unfolding in Gaza, have made the 32-year-old a TikTok star with more than 100,000 followers. Rebecca Rosman reports.

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