UN: Record number of attacks on aid workers

 

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Published 08.12

 

Palestinians in front of a bombed building in Gaza City, where the need for aid is enormous, on Monday. Photo: Jehad Alshrafi/AP/TT

More than 900 aid workers worldwide were killed, injured or kidnapped last year, according to a new report from the UN's humanitarian coordination agency Ocha.

The Gaza Strip is the deadliest place for aid workers for the third year in a row with 186 deaths. In Sudan, 71 aid workers were killed.

A total of 350 people with humanitarian missions were killed worldwide. 322 survived, but were injured, in attacks and 235 were kidnapped, according to Ocha's estimate. The total number of attacks, 907, has never been higher, according to the UN.

So far this year, 82 aid workers have been killed, 97 injured and 39 kidnapped around the world.