00:07So I take my guitar and move in the camp between the tents and I ask the family who has
00:14a talent, who wants to sing.
00:19A tent camp in Gaza's Khan Unis filled with children.
00:23They sit close, singing together. Some hesitant, some louder, all trying to find the same note.
00:30Off to one side, a man with a guitar strumming along. That's Ahmed Abu Amshah.
00:36A music teacher displaced multiple times by the war, using music to give children a brief escape from the constant
00:42sounds of bombing and drones.
00:46Right now, I'm in the middle of Gaza Strip. So all the kids right now in their tents and we
00:52don't have a connection there.
00:53This is the coffee shop, so I have to come here to have a connection, yeah.
00:57Before the war, his life looked very different. He taught at the American School of Gaza and ran his own
01:03studio from his home in Beit Hanun.
01:05Then came the war in October 2023.
01:12We are running from death. I displaced 15 times.
01:18From Rafa to Khan Unis, he and his wife carried what little they could.
01:23But one thing always came with them. Their instruments.
01:31This is the beach. Let me show you.
01:35And this is the camps. People live here and there.
01:39After we moved to Rafa, I was living in the camp and some of my friends told me,
01:46Hey Mr. Ahmed, can you play guitar?
01:50When I'm playing, like all the kids gather around me and play some music, like I forget for seconds this
01:59war and what we're suffering.
02:01In displacement inside tents like this one,
02:04Ehmag began to train a group of displaced children under his project, Gaza Bird Singing.
02:09Many of these kids had never formally learned music.
02:12Now, they're brought together to sing.
02:16I was founding the instruments falling the ground, broken, and then by some instruments from the people that sin, that
02:25sell, these instruments like wood for fire.
02:28I bring it and fix it and glue it.
02:33I was counting the sound of the bomb, one, two, three.
02:39And I think it's a propaganda about seizing fire.
02:42Until now, this is our life.
02:47Yeah, we will never lose. It will end.
02:54No.
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