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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Jason Burke

Gaza’s musicians reopen bomb-shattered conservatory – in tents

Yara Abu Amsha, 15, playing the violin.
Yara Abu Amsha, 15, playing the violin. Photograph: Amjad Tantesh/The Guardian

The three tents line a stretch of overcrowded, windswept sand, their windows open on to a view of the breaking waves of the Mediterranean. From inside comes the sound of singing, a strummed guitar, a violin and then a flute.

But if the music evokes calm and harmony, the surroundings do not: rows of crowded makeshift shelters swelter in Gaza’s summer heat, young children picking their way through rubble, battered cars and pony carts clogging a potholed road. Above, Israeli military drones hum and buzz.

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