Its walls daubed with pro-Hamas slogans and the Muslim call to prayer sounding from its minarets, it looks like the densely populated streets of Gaza City.But Defence Forces soldiers have stalked these streets since 2005 as they received close-quarters combat training in a fake desert city in Israel known as 'Mini Gaza'.Ahead of a widely anticipated ground assault, Israeli troops have been preparing to fight their way through the real Gazan streets at the Tze'elim army base around 10 miles from the border with the Gaza Strip.
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