Tiny steps in shaken Gaza

The group of girls, with ponytails and dressed in pink, stretched their arms out and pivoted onto their toes, trying desperately to hold still. Eagle-eyed, the instructor surveyed Gaza's latest crop of would-be ballerinas.Fifty girls aged five to eight are now enrolled in the ballet school at the al-Qattan Centre for Children in Gaza, making it one of the most popular classes the arts institute runs, under the watchful eye of a Ukrainian teacher.