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Aftermath of World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack which killed 7 aid workers on April 1, 2024. Humanitarian aid workers belonging to United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are among the list of protected persons under international humanitarian law that grant them immunity from attack by belligerent parties.
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003.It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani.
Eleven Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen's Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels face increasing financial ...
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. [62] By 25 March 2024, a total of 171 UNRWA workers had been killed in Gaza. [63] [64] On 30 April 2024, 182 staffers had been reported killed. [65]
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 ...
A staff officer later claimed the fatal shell was British and Mercer is upheld as the most senior Canadian officer killed in combat and by friendly fire. [ 28 ] On the night of 4–5 August, during the First Battle of the Somme , the 13th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry were fired on by Australian Artillery while in process of capturing ...
The 13 fallen service members were Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, Cpl. Hunter Lopez, Cpl. Daegan W. Page, Cpl ...
A UN spokesperson said that "three international UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan) staff members were killed, and four international armed security guards were killed." [9] Two of the UN dead were reported to have been beheaded. [13] It was the deadliest attack ever against United Nations personnel in Afghanistan. [8]