In a modest workshop tucked inside the crowded Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the soft sound of an oud echoes through the ruins of war.
Surrounded by wooden pallets, fragments of crates that held humanitarian aid and the pieces of damaged instruments, Palestinian craftsman Suhail Abu Shawish bends carefully over a battered oud, tuning its strings after days of painstaking repair.
The treasured instrument - scarred by shelling and destruction during the war in Gaza - is one of many that have found their way to his workshop.
"Young people have started sending their instruments to me for repair," Abu Shawish told Agence France-Presse (AFP), as a customer walked into his workshop carrying damaged instruments wrapped in black plastic bags.
Several restored instruments, bright and shining, hang on the workshop walls — symbols of resilience, music and craftsmanship in the shadow of war.
