More aid workers have been killed this year than in any year since tallies began, the U.N. humanitarian office said on Friday, with most of them killed in the Gaza conflict. So far this year there have been 281 aid worker victims,

OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the figure surpassed the previous record of 280 deaths for the whole of last year.

A record 281 humanitarian aid workers have been killed since January this year, according to the UN's emergency aid office OCHA, attributing the high figure to the war in Gaza. Most of the victims were local employees of non-governmental organizations,

A staggering 281 aid workers have been killed around the world so far this year, making 2024 the deadliest year for humanitarians, the UN aid chief said Friday.