The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 2024 is the “deadliest year” for humanitarian workers, due to the aggression that Israel has been waging on Gaza for more than a year.

The office indicated in a statement, today, Friday, that "280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries in 2023," and that this year's number exceeded previous "record numbers."

He pointed out that "2024 is the bloodiest year for humanitarian relief organizations, due to the impact of the war in Gaza."

He stated that "the killing of more than 320 humanitarian workers since the start of the Israeli war of extermination on Gaza on October 7, 2023, played a major role in increasing the number of aid workers killed in total."

He added that "the majority of those killed (in the Strip) were on the job at the time of their killing, and that they were generally employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)."

He stressed that humanitarian organizations continued to provide vital aid despite the risks, explaining that last year, about 144 million people in need were reached, while more than 116 million people around the world were reached until November 2024.

The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, which resulted in the martyrdom of 44,056 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 104,268 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.