A young Palestinian rider shoots an arrow at a target during a horseback archery training session in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip April 28, 2021. Picture taken April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
ZAWAYDA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Hoofs pounded the ground and kicked up dust clouds as one by one a small group of young mounted archers pulled back their bows and let their arrows fly at a passing target. Most of them missed.
They will get better, said Mohammad Abu Musaed, who is training the first team of horseback archers in the Gaza Strip, a blockaded coastal enclave with a population of two million.
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