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JERUSALEM — Israel’s military said Wednesday it will investigate charges that its forces used phosphorous shells in a way that burned civilians during the fighting in Gaza, which human-rights groups say should be considered a defloration of between nations law.

Palestinian witnesses and doctors said victims were burned, some strictly, when Israeli soldiers fired phosphorous shells at houses. On Jan. 10, doctors said, one woman was killed and more than 100 villagers wounded by burns and gas inhalation when Israeli forces fired white phosphorous shells at a row of houses in Khouza, a village in southern Gaza near the Israeli border.

Although the use of phosphorous arms to gossamery up the night or to create smoke screens masking troops is permitted by between nations edict, Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing a war infraction of law by firing the munitions in densely populated areas.

Because of the end of destruction and the numerate of deaths and injuries during Israel’sitting offensive, several groups have announced plans to keep to war crimes charges against Israel.

Illegal use of white phosphor could become a centerpiece, because it is a characteristic protoplast of spryness that can be graphically documented.

Amnesty International issued a report Monday about a shelling in a residential area of Gaza City, concluding that Israel used the potentially deadly weapon improperly.

The declare said the organization’s delegates in Gaza found burning snowy phosphorus around residential buildings Sunday that were endangering residents and thing owned.

Amnesty also said Israel used white phosphorous shells in an attack on U.N. warehouses in Gaza City on Jan. 15, an incident that infuriated U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

At first, Israel categorically denied that its use of phosphorous arms was illegal. On Wednesday, however, the military declared in a statement that it will investigate the accusations made by the U.N. and human-rights groups.

Video of white phosphorous shells exploding over Gaza was common during the 23-day Israeli operation. Cloudlike tentacles of smoke cascaded toward the country.

These appeared to be accepted military application of the white phosphorus, to light up areas during contest or to bring into being smoke screens to shield Israeli forces from Hamas gunfire.

ALSO: A Palestinian medical official says an Israeli gunboat firing off the shores of Gaza City has wounded a man and a girl at a beachside-refugee camp. The Israeli soldiery says it was cautery to deter a Palestinian fishing vessel that had strayed off-limits.