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The UN castigated on Monday 19, August 19, “inadmissible” violence on Monday 19, which are generalized against humanitarian workers, including 280 were killed worldwide in 2023.
An outburst of trivialized violence. “The normalization of violence against humanitarian workers and the fact that no one accounts are unacceptable, inadmissible and extremely dangerous for humanitarian operations, everywhere,” said Joyce Msuya, acting head of the UN humanitarian office ( OCHA), on the occasion of World Humanitarian Aid Day.
“Dear leaders of the world, what should happen more before you act?” She wrote on X.
“With 280 humanitarian workers killed in 33 countries last year, 2023 was the deadliest year ever recorded for the international humanitarian community, with an increase of 137% compared to 2022 (118 killed),” detailed Ocha in a press release.
In addition, the record notably fed by the war in Gaza, risks being broken in 2024. And for good reason, 176 humanitarian workers were killed between January 1 and August 9, 2024 – including 121 in the Palestinian territories – a figure Already higher than most of the previous complete years. The previous record dated from 2013 with 159 dead.
According to this information, based on the figures for the Aid Worker Security Database database, more than half of the 2023 dead (163) are humanitarian workers in Gaza during the first three months of the war between Israel and Hamas. These workers were mainly death in air strikes.
