Popular Gaza ice cream parlour stirs nostalgia with first UAE branch

By Luke Tyson and AbdelHadi Ramahi

AJMAN, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -Beloved Palestinian ice cream parlour Kazem, forced to shutter its Gaza doors in 2023 as the Israel-Hamas war escalated, has opened up in the United Arab Emirates, offering not just frozen treats, but a taste of nostalgia to the local community.

Kazem is now serving scoops of ice cream and its famous barrad, a traditional Palestinian slushy drink with citrus flavours, in Ajman, a small emirate roughly 45 km (28 miles)…