265 aid workers killed in 2025 so far, more than half of them in Gaza: UN

Nearly 400 aid workers were killed last year, close to half of them in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories, the UN has said. This marked the most deadly year since records began in 1997. 

Reuters news agency reported that for the year 2025, the conflict in Gaza is continuing to cause high death rates for humanitarian staff. 

In 2025, so far, 265 aid workers have been killed. Of those, 173 were in Gaza since Israel started its offensive. 

According to provisional data from the Aid Worker Security Database, a US-funded platform that compiles reports on major security incidents affecting aid workers, this year, 36 aid workers have so far been killed in Sudan and three in Ukraine. 

"Attacks on this scale, with zero accountability, are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy," said Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

In the year 2024, 383 aid workers were killed.