Feature: Back to Gaza -- Palestinians' rocky road home via Rafah crossing

GAZA, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- For Palestinians who were allowed to return to Gaza through the newly reopened Rafah crossing, the journey home was both exhausting and emotionally taxing.

Israel officially reopened the Rafah crossing, connecting Gaza to Egypt, for pedestrians on Monday, but it only permits a limited number of Palestinians to re-enter Gaza each day.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza government medi