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Students and teachers at the Dar al Kalima Training Centre stand in front of a mural at the Gaza art school
A few hundred metres from the residential tower destroyed by an IDF bomb in Gaza City on Tuesday, a new art school is literally picking up the pieces. Students at the Dar al Kalima Training Centre, housed in a refurbished mid-century house with a courtyard garden, are collecting broken glass to make stained glass art in the shape of doves.
While it is still not safe enough to return to the school, the only accredited fine arts academy in Gaza, its founder Mitri Raheb, a Lutheran priest from Bethlehem says: “We have to continue making art, it’s very important. We can’t let destruction have the last word.”