Israeli troops and armour have rolled into a strategic Gaza Strip refugee camp in an apparent resumption of what the army had called an open-ended operation to search for arms-smuggling tunnels. Palestinian witnesses say at least 40 tanks and armoured personnel carriers have entered Rafah, a militant bastion on Gaza's southern border with Egypt, from two directions before dawn, encountering little resistance. Israeli forces took large areas of the camp last Thursday and quit three days later. The UN Relief and Works Agency said about 1,500 people had been left homeless as a result of last week's operation.
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