"You either hold a weapon or you hold a guitar," says Raji El-Jaru, Gaza's biggest rockstar. Months before war broke out last year, hundreds of people packed into a concert hall to hear his band perform their distinct blend of pounding guitar riffs and impassioned lyrics. Focused on survival rather than music, the five members of Osprey V - believed to be Gaza's first rock band - went from dreaming of gigging in Europe to wondering if they would ever play together again.
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