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.

More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year, the United Nations reported Friday.

Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single-biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“Before the year is even over, 2024 has become the deadliest on record for humanitarian personnel worldwide,” OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke said. He told reporters in Geneva the figure surpassed the previous record of 280 deaths for the whole of last year.

  • BMTea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 month ago

    Bloodshed in the Middle East

    Dang, I hate how various parties in the Middle East are killing aid workers. I hate all the many varied parties who keep doing that.

  • CheradenineEnglish
    151·
    1 month ago

    Stop being mealy mouthed cunts and hold them responsible.

    Some 230 aid workers have been killed in occupied Palestinian areas, the database showed Friday. It did not break out whether that was Gaza or the West Bank.

    Oh, but…

    Laerke said the threats to aid workers “extend beyond Gaza, with high levels of violence, kidnappings injuries, harassment and arbitrary detention” reported in Afghanistan, Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen and elsewhere.

    Of the 281 killed 230 were in Palestinian areas. The Israeli government is targeting aid workers. That is not opinion, it is fact.