In a workshop in the besieged Gaza Strip, Ibrahim Shouman is bringing old brass stoves back to life, giving hope to displaced people deprived of gas for cooking, AFP reports.

“People have gone back to the old times and are bringing their brass camping stoves for repair because there is no gas or fuel available,” Shouman told an AFP journalist in Rafah in the south of Gaza, near the border with Egypt.

“People have been searching all over for firewood, but it’s no longer available,” Shouman said. “They would have to buy it for a higher price, and people have very little money left.”

With a shortage of kerosene, Shouman fuels the stoves with a mix of motor oil and home heating oil.