The last Israel Airforce plane took off from Fayid airport today signaling the approaching end to Israel’s occupation of Egyptian territory west of the Suez Canal. The last Israeli ground units will leave the west bank salient this Thursday–Feb. 21–according to the disengagement timetable. The last unit to be evacuated will be the one that was the first to thrust across the canal at the height of the Yom Kippur War four months ago. According to one report, the departing Israeli soldiers will swim the width of the canal. Meanwhile, Israeli and Egyptian teams increased efforts to locate and exhume the bodies of fallen soldiers still in the battle areas.
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