Overview

• OCHA counted 383 aid workers killed in 2024, a 31% rise from 2023, with 308 injured, 125 abducted and 45 arrested.
• By August 14, 2025, OCHA had recorded 265 further deaths, while WHO logged over 800 attacks on health facilities in 16 regions with more than 1,110 medical staff and patients killed.
• UN figures show 181 aid workers were killed in Gaza and 60 in Sudan in 2024, most of them local staff, and state actors were responsible for most deadly incidents.
• Security incidents against aid personnel climbed from 152 in 2011 to roughly 600 in 2024, and this year 108 of 245 recorded attacks occurred in the Palestinian territories.
• Relief leaders highlight a funding crunch, with UNHCR reporting $3.5 billion available—unchanged in a decade—despite 122 million people displaced, and Sudan’s appeal receiving about $96 million of the $417 million required.