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A Band Called WATAR

A Band Called WATAR
Mo7aisen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

WATAR, which was launched one month before Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008/2009, is comprised of five university students who trained themselves to play musical instruments in the absence of music schools. They consider themselves to be part of the Palestinian non-violent resistance as they sing for peace and Palestinian rights.

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