UN decries ‘normalisation of violence against aid workers’
19 آب 2024 09:34
The UN’s acting humanitarian chief has expressed concern over the increasing “normalisation of violence against aid workers” in a statement released on World Humanitarian Day.
Joyce Msuya, the acting director of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), added that the “lack of accountability” for aid worker deaths is “unacceptable, unconscionable and enormously harmful for aid operations everywhere”.
More than 280 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October, including many local employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, OCHA said.
More than half of the deaths in 2023, or 163, were aid workers killed in Gaza during the first three months of the war, mainly in Israeli air strikes, OCHA added.
Joyce Msuya, the acting director of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), added that the “lack of accountability” for aid worker deaths is “unacceptable, unconscionable and enormously harmful for aid operations everywhere”.
More than 280 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October, including many local employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, OCHA said.
More than half of the deaths in 2023, or 163, were aid workers killed in Gaza during the first three months of the war, mainly in Israeli air strikes, OCHA added.