Thousands of cross-border Gazan workers and laborers in Israel and the occupied West Bank were sent back to Gaza on Friday, Reuters journalists said. Some of the Gazan workers returned through the Kerem Shalom crossing east of the Rafah border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt, they said. The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday night: "Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day of the outbreak of the war will be returned to Gaza."