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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 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]
CNN - A United Nations staff member was among 10 people killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and the UN said on Friday.. Sufyan Jaber Abed ...
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 ...
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.
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]
The Israeli military said Friday it had killed a senior Hamas official it described as one of the last surviving senior officials in the Gaza militant group. In a statement posted to social media ...
United Nations workers observed a minute's silence on Monday to honour the more than 100 employees killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began last month, the largest toll of humanitarian ...