The United Nations Security Council has expressed concern over the rising number of aid workers killed in the Gaza Strip, which stands at 224, marking an unprecedented level of danger facing aid workers.
Members of the UN Security Council recalled that seven humanitarian workers of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
VSUN emphasized that the 224 killed humanitarians are three times more than the annual average in any conflict.
Members stressed the need for accountability for all deaths and stressed the need for the investigation into the murder of WCK workers to be “transparent and comprehensive” and “fully publicized.”
“The members of the Security Council also requested that all parties to the conflict fully respect the protected status of humanitarian workers, facilities and operations under international law, that they adhere to the mechanisms of humanitarian notification and deconfliction, and that they immediately eliminate all deficiencies in those mechanisms,” they stated in a statement.
Expressing deep concern over the dire humanitarian situation and impending famine in Gaza, the UN Security Council “called for the immediate removal of all obstacles to the delivery of large-scale humanitarian aid to the civilian population and the unimpeded distribution of such aid.”
