Poor, starving Gazan 'Palestinians' ride horses

Israel Matzav
04 July '10

Here's another activity that poor starving Gazans are deprived of having: horseback riding.

Riding is an authentically Arab sport, particularly for Palestinians, 19-year-old Gaza resident Taher Khaznadar told Ma’an last week, from Gaza’s sole operating horse club.

The Al-Faisal Riding Club is open to all, young and old, male and female, as long as they can pay the monthly fee of 250 shekels (64 US dollars), limiting the availability of the sport to at least the 30% in Gaza who are not unemployed.

For the record, the unemployment rate in Gaza is 39% and not 70% as that last sentence implied.

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