Tuesday 05 August 2014 16.19 A three-day ceasefire has come into effect in Gaza this morning.
Officials from Israel and Hamas agreed to the truce, which was negotiated by Egypt.
The agreement also proposes multilateral talks in Cairo on a permanent ceasefire.
Israel has withdrawn all its forces from Gaza, wrapping up a ground operation begun on 17 July, a military spokesman confirmed.
"There were a number of forces inside ... but all of them have left" the Palestinian territory, General Moti Almoz told army radio.
Israel's two main radio stations reported that ground forces have completed their main mission of destroying cross-border tunnels dug by Hamas militants.
Israel Radio and Army Radio reported that at least 32 of the underground infiltration passages, and dozens of access shafts, were located and blown up ahead of the truce.
More than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, which has also seen the deaths of 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians.
Minutes before the truce began, air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as militants fired a barrage of rockets at central Israel.
Timeline - Israel's Operation Protective Edge
Meanwhile, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki has said there was "clear evidence" that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.
"In last 28 days, there is clear evidence of war crimes committed by Israel amounting to crimes against humanity," Mr Malki said after meeting prosecutors at the International Criminal Court.
Mr Malki said his administration was making efforts to have Palestine become a member of the court, a legal step that would grant the ICC jurisdiction over alleged crimes in the territory.
The ICC, created more than a decade ago to prosecute individuals for war crimes, is a court of last resort, meaning that it can only intervene when a country is found to be unwilling or unable to carry out its own investigation.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged "utmost restraint" after both sides agreed to the 72-hour truce.
The ceasefire comes only days after a similar three-day agreement to let the guns fall silent collapsed in a deadly wave of violence within hours of starting on Friday.
Mr Ban urged both sides to "commence, as soon as possible, talks in Cairo on a durable ceasefire and the underlying issues," his office said hours after the announcement was made.
"In this regard, he welcomes the proactive engagement of the Palestinian delegation under the leadership of President Abbas."
Mr Ban has promised the UN's "full support" for the talks, which he said are "the only way to sustainably stop the violence, which has cost far too many lives".
Elsewhere, British Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has resigned, branding her government's policy on Gaza as "morally indefensible".
Lady Warsi, who was the first Muslim to sit in cabinet, informed British Prime Minister David Cameron that she could no longer support the government's stance on the issue.
She wrote in her resignation letter: "My view has been that our policy in relation to the Middle East peace process generally but more recently our approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain's national interest and will have a long-term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically."
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