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Elissa Nadworny

As Israel forces workers from Gaza back, thousands more remain stuck in the West Bank

Laundry hangs from a fence outside a university campus in the Palestinian city of Jericho, at a makeshift home for more than 400 workers from Gaza. There are thousands more workers throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including in the city of Ramallah. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

RAFAH, Gaza Strip, and JERICHO, West Bank — News from Gaza comes in conversations in the hallway, over the communal sinks, between bunk beds, and texts and calls with relatives. For thousands of workers from Gaza who are stuck in makeshift shelters and camps in the West Bank, much of their world — including their families — is still 60 miles away.

On Friday, they heard about thousands of other laborers who were forced to return to Gaza on foot from Israel — dropped off several miles from the Israeli border with Gaza, wearing numbered tags on their ankles.

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