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What do "holding camp" and "to be processed" mean in the following context?
"When the DFA finally agreed to let Palestinians fly into the Philippines, both Hamza and Abdullah’s families took the long and arduous journey to an Egyptian holding camp across the border, where they had to wait to be processed. "
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A holding camp is a place for them to stay temporarily while they wait to move on. To be processed means that they are waiting for their application to go to the Philippines to be processed, the reason for their been in a holding camp, for waiting, is for some processing to happen.
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