Palestinians Pick Up Pieces After Israeli Offensive

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Palestinians Pick Up Pieces After Israeli Offensive

Palestinians Pick Up Pieces After Israeli Offensive

JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinians picked over the rubble of more than two weeks of fighting in a refugee camp on Saturday after Israeli tanks quit northern Gaza to end a crushing offensive.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) said the army would be back if rocket fire into Israel, which triggered its most powerful assault in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) in four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, continued.

More than 100 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli offensive, Palestinian medics said.

Residents in Jabalya, a refugee camp of 100,000 and the scene of fierce fighting between soldiers and militants, said Israeli tanks and bulldozers that churned through its alleyways destroyed dozens of homes and tore up roads and water pipes.

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Palestinians Pick Up Pieces After Israeli Offensive

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