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Wed 11 Nov 2002Israeli troops raid refugee camp as US envoy arrivesMIDDLE EAST: Israeli troops and armoured vehicles raided the West Bank city of Tul Karm and its adjacent refugee camp early yesterday, in response to an attack by a Palestinian gunman on a kibbutz in northern Israel on Sunday in which five people were killed.The military action came as US envoy David Satterfield began a visit to the region in what is already being viewed as a largely futile attempt to promote a new peace plan. Troops swept into Tul Karm in what army sources said was a hunt for the Palestinian who gunned down the five, including a mother and her two children in their bedroom at Kibbutz Metzer, close to the northern West Bank.