| 05.04.2024
The Conversation: More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely
Seven aid workers from the food aid charity World Central Kitchen were killed in Gaza on Monday night when their convoy was attacked in a confirmed Israeli drone strike. This puts the death toll among humanitarians at over 200, writes Hanken’s Sarah Schiffling and Foteini Stavropoulou from Liverpool John Moores University in The Conversation.
A majority of those killed have been Palestinians. Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be an aid worker. It is also the most dangerous place to be a civilian. Delivering, as well as receiving humanitarian assistance can be deadly.
Humanitarian aid workers and people receiving aid should be protected and not targeted. Even wars have rules. The safe access of humanitarian relief to civilians in need is covered by the fourth Geneva convention. Despite this, attacks on aid workers in conflict areas are becoming more frequent around the world.
Read the whole article (on Hanken’s blog):
More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely