Shaina Low, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s communications adviser in Palestine, told Al Jazeera that while targets for the number of aid trucks entering Gaza have been met in recent days, it is now becoming riskier for humanitarian workers to bring aid into the Gaza Strip due to armed gangs.

“We continue to call for the restoration of the Palestinian civilian police force in order to enable humanitarian aid to reach Gaza and to be able to continue to scale up our response,” she said, speaking from Amman in Jordan.

“For the first four days of the ceasefire, we saw that there really wasn’t looting or criminal acts,” Low said. “But over the last day or so, there has been [an] intensification of looting from criminal gangs and we aren’t entirely sure why it’s emerging.”

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