Pope Benedict XVI visited a Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem Wednesday afternoon, hours after telling Palestinian refugees "my heart goes out to all the families who have been left homeless."The tour of Aida refugee camp was considered by Palestinians to be the highlight of the papal tour of the biblical West Bank city, during which he had voiced strong and unequivocal support for an independent Palestinian state.The pontiff, making a one-day stopover in Bethlehem on his five-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, was to address the camp's 5,000 refugees from the courtyard of a local school run by the United Nations.
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