Displaced Palestinian craftsman Suhail Abu Shawish glues an "Oud" musical instrument he is repairing, damaged by shelling or destruction during the war in the Gaza Strip using wooden pallets and leftover aid materials, at his makeshift workshop in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip.
In a modest makeshift 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 AFP, as a customer walked into his workshop carrying damaged instruments wrapped in black plastic bags.
