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A homeless Palestinian boy, whose house was demolished early Thursday by the Israeli army as a reprisal for a Palestinian militant attack, carries blankets after he received supplies from the International Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Sunday Jan. 13, 2002. Israel waged an internal debate Sunday over the army's demolition of Palestinian homes in the area west of Salahaddin gate in Rafah, with critics of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying the operation was inappropriate and poorly handled. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)