A boy band in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria performs songs about the war raging in Syria and about Palestine. Accompanied by a pianist, they stand huddled together amid the devastation and squalor of the camp and sing: "You shall not defeat our people" even if you "suffocate them with gas bombs."
Following are excerpts from the video-clips, posted on the Internet in January and February 2014.
Singers: You shall not defeat our people. No, you shall not.
Go ahead and suffocate them with gas bombs.
You shall not defeat our people. No, you shall not.
Go ahead and suffocate them with gas bombs.
Go ahead and break the boy's bones with a club.
Go ahead and break the boy's bones with a club.
You shall not defeat our people, oh invaders of the land.
You shall not defeat them, you shall not, you shall not.
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Oh displaced people, return. You have been gone for a long time.
We are the soldiers of Yarmouk, and we will not turn our backs on it.
Oh displaced people, return. You have been gone for a long time.
We are the soldiers of Yarmouk, and we will not turn our backs on it.
Yarmouk, the march of victory towards Jerusalem will not stop.
Return, oh my people, praise God, Yarmouk.
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Oh our camp, they have been besieging you with cannons for many years,
But your people never become soft even if the whole world forgets them.
Oh our camp, they have been besieging you with cannons for many years,
But your people never become soft even if the whole world forgets them.
Who am I without you – even though they removed you from my sight?
Even if Palestine is gone, Yarmouk has become my homeland.
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Youngsters are seen hauling the piano across a playing field
C'mon guys. Let's move it.
Over there. Go through there.
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