A shaky calm appears to be holding in the Gaza Strip after Israel and Palestinian factions separately declared that they would hold fire, reports Aljazeera .
Israeli troops and tanks were on the move, heading away from some key points in Gaza towards the border, but it remained unclear whether they were leaving the Palestinian territory or merely redeploying.
Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips, reporting from southern Israel early on Monday, said the scale of fighting had decreased soon after Hamas and other Palestinian factions declared their one-week ceasefire.
But with more than 20 rockets fired from Gaza - injuring three people according to Israeli police - in the 12 to 14 hours after Israel's unilateral ceasefire declaration before the Palestinians' own announcement, the situation remained volatile, our correspondent said.
On the other side of the border, Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reported from Gaza City that Hamas and the other Palestinians were claiming victory, believing that they had showed the world and Palestinians that they could remain steadfast in the face of Israel's 22-day assault.
They were portraying their ability to fire rockets on Sunday, hours after Israel's ceasefire declaration, as a symbolic and operational victory, denying Israel of achieving its stated objective of stopping rocket fire from Gaza.
But the full price of that "victory" was only beginning to be revealed on Sunday as thousands of Gazans made their way back to previously inaccessible areas to find their homes and complete neighbourhoods decimated.
Our correspondent reported sewage on the streets as Gazans sifted through rubble of what was previously their homes to recover bodies and salvage whatever they could.
About 100 people were discovered in the rubble of destroyed buildings on Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, Hamas and several allied Palestinian factions announced a conditional, one-week ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, giving Israel seven days to pull out of the territory.
The move, following a meeting of the factions in Damascus, came a day after Israel announced that it was ending its offensive in Gaza, which killed at least 1,300 Palestinians and injured more than 5,000, after 22 days.
"We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand that enemy forces withdraw in a week and open all the border crossings to permit the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods," Mousa Abu Marzuk, deputy leader of Hamas's political bureau, said in Damascus on Sunday.
Besides Hamas, Palestinian factions at the Damascus meeting included Islamic Jihad, al-Nidal, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and al-Saeqa.
Israel said that it would not consider a timetable for withdrawing all of its forces from the Gaza Strip until Hamas and other groups halt their fire.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Sunday, Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokesperson, said "Hamas will not give Israel a deadline to pull out its troops".
"We will pull out the troops if and when we will decide that a permanent safe and secure situation has arrived in our country - which has not.
"We have to assess the situation every day and then see whether we are heading towards a stable secure situation or we have to continue the operation.
"The operation is not over. This is only a holding of fire."