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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that three of its staff were killed in war-torn Sudan's Blue Nile state on Thursday after an aerial strike on its compound. U.N ...
The 2011 Mazar-i-Sharif attack occurred on 1 April 2011 when a group of demonstrators attacked the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including three United Nations staff members and four Nepalese guards. Additionally, five protesters died in the violence.
The head of the UN, António Guterres, said that no other conflict has caused so much damage to the employees of the United Nations. The total number of UNRWA staff killed was later raised to 136. [56] By 25 March 2024, a total of 171 UNRWA workers had been killed in Gaza. [57] [58] On 30 April 2024, 182 staffers had been reported killed. [59]
Killed along with her child in an airstrike on their residence. [1] October 27, 2023 Yasser Abu Namous Al-Sahel Khan Yunis Killed in an airstrike on his residence. [1] October 30, 2023 Nazmi Al-Nadim Palestine TV (deputy director of finance and administration) Zeitoun Killed along with relatives in an airstrike on his residence. [1]
People carry the body of Yaser Abu Sharar, a staff member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) who was killed in an attack by the Israeli ...
SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Three members of staff at a high school in western Bosnian were killed on Wednesday when a cleaner opened fire with an automatic rifle before trying to take his own life ...
He was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq along with 20 other members of his staff on 19 August 2003 while working as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, and United Nations Special Representative for Iraq. Before his death, he was considered a likely candidate for UN Secretary-General.
In addition to the American service members, 168 Afghans were killed in the bombing as they tried to get on board evacuation flights out of the war-torn country.