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Picture of some of a total of 120 shrouds stained with red paint and marked with Palestinian flags which were placed by NGO Rio de Paz on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, taken on November 3, 2023. United Nations, United States—The United Nations on Monday condemned “unacceptable” levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023.
“With 280 aid workers killed in 33 countries last year, 2023 marked the deadliest year on record for the global humanitarian community,” a 137 percent increase over 2022, when 118 aid workers died, OCHA said in the statement.The UN said 163 of those killed in 2023 were aid workers killed in Gaza during the first three months of the war between Israel and Hamas, mainly in air strikes.
“If the international community fails them, we fail everyone who is in need of humanitarian aid,” he added, reminding those involved in armed conflict of their “obligation” to international humanitarian law.“We demand an end to impunity so that perpetrators face justice,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
Since October, when Hamas-led militants launched a deadly raid into Israel, triggering the war, more than 280 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, the majority of them employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, according to OCHA. “Yet despite widespread condemnation, serious violations of the rules of war too often go unpunished.”
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