At least 326 aid workers were killed in the line of duty across 21 countries in 2025, bringing the three-year death toll to more than 1,000. That’s according to the U.N.’s top aid coordinator Tom Fletcher, who briefed the Security Council Wednesday. More than 560 of those deaths occurred in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, 130 in Sudan, 60 in South Sudan and 25 each in Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned the council that “we are losing our humanity in war.” This is U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher.

Tom Fletcher: “These trends, alongside the collapse in funding for our lifesaving work, are a symptom of a lawless, bellicose, selfish and violent world. Killing humanitarians is part of the broader attack on the U.N. Charter and on international humanitarian law.”