Some 1,300 Palestinians trying to return to the Gaza Strip are stranded at the Israeli-Egyptian border because of slow Israeli customs procedures, Egyptian border officials charged. Egyptian authorities said they erected two huge tents to shelter the growing number of Palestinians at the Rafah border crossing.
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