"I became famous by accident!" she says. A viral video of Renad unpacking an aid box and discovering that it contained sugar and her reaction of utter glee at finding a basic ingredient that had been in short supply caught the world's attention.
"Even before the war began in October last year, she watched cooking videos with a passion. But when the war broke out, she began cooking with her family using whatever ingredients were available - often those from aid boxes containing mainly dried goods and canned food."
"Renad's older sister, Nourhan Ataullah, is 25 and a pharmacist. She manages her younger sister's content and Instagram account. She feels a certain responsibility to ensure Renad's content is not upsetting to people who have little or no access to food and water - especially those in the north of Gaza which has been largely cut off from the rest of the enclave by Israeli forces."
"The two sisters recall the early days of Israel's war on Gaza, when Deir el-Balah ran out of flour, canned goods and vegetables altogether and all the bakeries had been bombed or were not functioning. All they had left to cook with was some flour to make basic loaves of bread themselves."
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