The United Nations says more aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single-biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year.
FILE - A Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages drives by at the Gaza Strip crossing into Egypt in Rafah on Nov. 25, 2023. FILE- Medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and volunteers at the National Disaster Response Team “NDRT” , participated in a drill during a graduation ceremony of medics, in Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip , Sept. 5, 2013. , File)FILE - A Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages drives by at the Gaza Strip crossing into Egypt in Rafah on Nov. 25, 2023.
“These numbers will send shockwaves around the humanitarian community, especially on the front lines of the response,” he added. A total of 268 of the humanitarians killed — including from non-U.N. organizations like the Red Cross and Red Crescent — were national staff, while 13 were international staff.
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