With 95% of the Gaza university’s buildings damaged or destroyed by the Israeli bombing, all classes are online in precious moments when there is enough solar power to generate a brief online video meeting or, in this case, a poetry reading from disparate parts of Gaza via mobiles, laptops and consoles.

Since the beginning of the war, 72 members of the university faculty and 543 students have been killed. In the same period, 2,860 students graduated.

Between us, the sky will not collapse.

Even if the roofs of houses have already fallen,

we will build a horizon from scraps of cloud,

and teach the wind to carry our names forward.

We will not count the losses.

We will count the rivers that refuse to dry,

the stones that keep warmth after fire,

the children who draw suns on ruined walls.

Shahd Alnaouq from Be My Brother