Last Israeli troops leave Gaza

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The Daytona Beach News-Journal WORLD Shelling, smuggling test truce JERUSALEM - Israel's last troops left the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, although the cease- fire was frayed when its navy opened fire toward beaches in northern Gaza, and smugglers' tunnels that were targeted in the 23-day campaign against Hamas were active again at the Egyp- The Israeli military said it would investigate allegations by the United Nations and human rights groups that it wrongly used white phosphorous ingredient in weapons that in- flicts horrific burns.

Although the use of phosphorus weapons is permitted by international law, Amnesty International has Associated Press photos accused Israel of committing a Palestinian human rights researcher Yasser Abdel Ghafar, second from left, takes notes while "war crime" by using them in talking to Rami Najar, left, in front of his family's destroyed house in Khan Younis,

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"Last Israeli troops leave Gaza," Daytona Beach News-Journal, 22 January 2009. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-030. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-030