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August 20, 2025

A Record 383 Humanitarian Workers Were Killed Last Year, Led by Israeli Attacks in Gaza
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The United Nations marked World Humanitarian Day on Tuesday by issuing a
grim report documenting the killing of 383 aid workers around the world
in 2024. That's a 31% rise from the year before, driven largely by
Israeli attacks on Gaza, where 181 humanitarian workers were killed by
Israel last year. Meanwhile, 60 humanitarian workers were killed in
Sudan as they worked to bring aid to people displaced by civil war. This
is U.N. spokesperson Jens Laerke.

Jens Laerke: "This must be a wake-up call to the world. People
representing the best of humanity, trying to help others, are being
killed in record numbers, and some of them in cold blood."



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