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The scent of jasmine blooms on a warm evening, the smell of fresh baked pandesal at the local Filipino bakery and the richness of halvah and spices at the Armenian corner store.

It gave the cake a glossy, almost shellacked finish—the kind of thing that made it look like it had been plucked straight from the window of a sun-drenched Italian bakery.

She opened a coffee shop and bakery to raise money for her films.

One month since Israel closed all crossings to Gaza for goods, all UN-supported bakeries have closed, markets are empty of most fresh vegetables and hospitals are rationing painkillers and antibiotics.

Through the 18 months since then, any bakeries that weren’t targeted and bombed had nothing to sell anyway, while most industry ground to a halt without fuel or electricity.