Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen and farmers on Saturday, Palestinian officials said, advancing a three-day-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week of fierce fighting.
Gaza's children also headed back to school in the hundreds of thousands, in another indication normal life was returning after eight days of fierce cross-border fighting in which 166 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed.
Nonetheless, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zaha told reporters of how the Islamists would go on smuggling in weapons "by all possible means," including via Israel's arch-foe Iran.
Israel has allowed Palestinian fishermen to fish in Gaza's waters at a distance of 10 kilometres, twice the previous distance, an Israeli official said.
