Some former residents of the Gaza Strip set up a tent camp near Tel Aviv. Some of the estimated 60 people in the tent camp said they preferred to stay there rather than in dormitories in Jerusalem, while others said they would stay until they could move en masse to a kibbutz in southern Israel.
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