Members of a Palestinian family ride a motorcycle as they return to their house in the east of Khan Younis, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive, following a ceasefire in the southern Gaza Strip on August 26. A ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians aimed at ending their seven-week conflict in Gaza went into effect on Tuesday and joyous Palestinians streamed into the streets of the battered enclave to celebrate. Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa