The highest number of attacks on aid workers was in Palestinian territory, followed by Sudan, the UN says.United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher has issued a “shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy” as he has shared statistics on the killing of 383 aid workers last year worldwide, nearly half in Gaza.Marking World Humanitarian Day on Tuesday, Fletcher said the killings rose by 31 percent from the year before, “driven by the relentless conflicts in Gaza, where 181 humanitarian workers were killed, and in Sudan, where 60 lost their lives”.“Even one attack against a humanitarian colleague is an attack on all of us and on the people we serve,” Fletcher said. “Attacks on this scale with zero accountability are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy.”The UN said most of those killed were local staff and were either attacked in the line of duty or in their homes.“As the humanitarian community, we demand – again – that those with power and influence act for humanity, protect civilians and aid workers and hold perpetrators to account,” said Fletcher, who is the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.This year’s tollThe Aid Worker Security Database, which has compiled UN reports since 1997, said the number of killings rose from 293 in 2023.Provisional figures from the database for this year show 265 aid workers have been killed as of August 14.One of the deadliest attacks this year took place in the southern Gaza city of R …
