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JERUSALEM, OCT. 17. Israel launched a new incursion in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip today for what the army said is an operation to search for tunnels being used to smuggle arms from Egypt and to hunt down Palestinian militants.
Under fire
Israeli troops came under fire from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades during the incursion, but there were no casualties. Palestinians earlier fired seven rockets into a Jewish settlement in the region, damaging a house and several vehicles. The Rafah incursion follows a massive seventeen-day operation in the northern Gaza Strip in which 129 Palestinians are reported to have been killed, a third of them civilians. The Islamist militant organisation Hamas called the withdrawal ``a serious defeat for the enemy'' because ``it did not manage to achieve its goal of stopping Qassam launches inside the Green Line''. The offensive, one of the deadliest in the last four years of upsurge, left a trail of destroyed buildings and infrastructure in the Strip with the largest concentration of refugees.
Contentious plan
After more than a year of avoiding Jewish settlers, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has decided to directly confront his former supporters in a meeting about his contentious plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank. — PTI, AP
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