The United Nations marked World Humanitarian Day on Tuesday by issuing a grim report documenting the killing of 383 aid workers around the world in 2024. That’s a 31% rise from the year before, driven largely by Israeli attacks on Gaza, where 181 humanitarian workers were killed by Israel last year. Meanwhile, 60 humanitarian workers were killed in Sudan as they worked to bring aid to people displaced by civil war. This is U.N. spokesperson Jens Laerke.

Jens Laerke: “This must be a wake-up call to the world. People representing the best of humanity, trying to help others, are being killed in record numbers, and some of them in cold blood.”