No air strikes, rockets or major clashes were reported overnight, giving residents their first night of peace since Israel's assault was launched on 27 December.
The guns fell silent after Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire and Hamas and other militant groups called a week-long truce of their own.
Soon after dawn, witnesses reported naval gunfire near the sea north of Gaza City, but Israel did not confirm the report.
Amid the lull, Israel agreed to let nearly 200 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid into Gaza and to supply 400,000 litres of fuel to the territory, a military official said.
Military administration spokesman Major Peter Lerner said 120 trucks would ferry aid through the Kerem Shalom terminal and up to 70 more would enter from Karni.
With the halt to fighting, Palestinian ambulance workers were able to dig out the dead from areas which had been unsafe to enter.
Nearly 100 bodies were recovered yesterday as the truce came into effect.
The discoveries brought the overall death toll to more than 1,300 - including more than 400 children.
Israel reported a death toll of 13.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was seeking to leave Gaza as quickly as possible. Although much the territory is now in ruins Hamas leader Ismail Haniya claimed a 'great victory'.
European leaders have urged the Jewish state to follow up its ceasefire by completely withdrawing troops and opening the territory's border crossings.
Israel has sealed Gaza off from all but vital humanitarian aid since Hamas came to power in June 2007.
Wiesenthal Centre outraged over Goebbels insult
A Jewish rights group has expressed outrage after a Sinn Féin TD compared one of his Jewish colleagues to a Nazi propagandist because of his defence of Israel's onslaught on Gaza.
The Paris-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre has urged Taoiseach Brian Cowen to publicly condemn the remark and to 'apologize to Alan Shatter on behalf of the Irish Government'.
Aengus Ó'Snodaigh made the remark on Wednesday at a parliamentary committee hearing in which he attacked Shatter and Israel's ambassador to Ireland for trying to justify the Israeli offensive.
Mr Ó'Snodaigh, Sinn Féin's international affairs spokesman, compared their defence of the Israeli campaign with the arguments of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister.
'Perhaps it is no coincidence that ... Shatter is the only Jewish member of the Irish parliament,' said the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in a public letter to the Mr Cowen.
This incident is in clear violation of Irish commitments to anti-racism and the Holocaust banalisation provisions of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,' concluded the letter.
Mr Shatter and Ambassador Zion Evrony had argued that the Gaza conflict would not have happened if the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers Hamas had not fired rockets at Israeli civilians.
Mr Ó'Snodaigh said that 'Goebbels would have been proud of the twisted logic and half-truths' of the two men's arguments.
