JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa admitted 130 Palestinians who arrived at O.R. Tambo International Airport on Wednesday from Kenya, after initially denying them entry for not meeting immigration requirements, border authorities said on Friday.

The Border Management Authority said a group of 153 Palestinians, who landed in Johannesburg on a chartered Global Airways flight, had not indicated how long or where they intended to stay. They also did not have the required departure stamps in their passports to show where they had boarded the plane.

“Following their failure to pass the immigration test and given that none of the travellers expressed an intention to apply for asylum, they were initially denied entry,” BMA Commissioner Michael Masiapato said in a statement.

The travellers wer

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