{"id":517657,"date":"2022-08-29T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517657"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:36:44","slug":"power-cuts-melt-gazas-ice-cream-stocks-as-heatwave-boosts-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-cuts-melt-gazas-ice-cream-stocks-as-heatwave-boosts-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts melt Gaza&#8217;s ice cream stocks as heatwave boosts demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy power cuts in the Gaza Strip have melted stocks of ice cream, forcing shops to stop selling it just when a heatwave has boosted demand.<\/p>\n<p>With summer temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), ice cream is a popular and relatively inexpensive treat in Gaza, home to 2.3 million people squeezed into a narrow coastal strip between Israel and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>But owners of several groceries said they had to stop selling it even as a particularly hot summer has increased demand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half of the ice cream melted. What should we do with it? Losses, losses,&#8221; supermarket owner, Fouad Awadallah told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy power cuts in the Gaza Strip have melted stocks of ice cream, forcing shops to stop selling it just when a heatwave has boosted demand. With summer temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), ice cream is a popular and relatively inexpensive treat in Gaza, home to 2.3 million people squeezed into a narrow coastal strip between Israel and Egypt. But owners of several groceries said they had to stop selling it even as a particularly hot summer has increased demand. &#8220;Half of the ice cream melted. What should we do with it? Losses, losses,&#8221; supermarket owner, Fouad Awadallah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}