attacks on humanitarian workers

The legal basis for the protection of humanitarian workers in armed conflicts is contained in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the related Protocols I and II of 1977. These treaties outline the rights and obligations of non-combatants who fulfill the criteria of protected persons during armed conflicts. These rights include the right to be treated humanely; to have access to food, water, shelter, medical treatment, and communications; to be free from violence to life and person, hostage taking, and humiliating or degrading treatment; and the prohibition against collective punishment or imprisonment. Protected persons include citizens and nationals of countries that are not a party to the conflict, except if such persons happen to be in the territory of a belligerent power, which maintains diplomatic relations with their home states.

While the Geneva Conventions guarantee protection for humanitarian workers, they do not guarantee access of humanitarian workers to affected areas: governments or occupying forces may, if they wish, ban a relief agency from working in their area. Médecins Sans Frontières was created in 1971 with the express purpose of ignoring this restriction, by providing assistance to populations affected by the Biafran civil war despite the prohibitions of the government of Nigeria.

In addition, the Geneva Conventions do not require that parties to the conflict guarantee the safety of humanitarian workers. The Conventions prohibit combatants from attacking protected persons, and they require occupying forces to maintain general order. However, the Conventions do not require that combating parties provide security escorts, for example, when other factions threaten the safety of protected persons operating in their area.

In 2003, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1502 giving greater protection to humanitarian workers and treating attacks on them as a war crime. ICRC promotes a framework for Neutral Independent Humanitarian Action (NIHA) to enable differentiated role understanding.{{Cite news |date=2003-08-27 |title=UN boosts aid workers' protection |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3183721.stm |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=BBC |language=en-GB}}

According to The New York Times, the Aid Worker Security Database is "widely regarded as an authoritative reference for aid organisations and governments in assessing trends in security threats."{{Cite news |last=Gladstone |first=Rick |date=2014-08-18 |title=Attacks on Aid Workers Jump Worldwide, Group Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/world/asia/attacks-on-aid-workers-jump-worldwide-group-says.html |access-date=2019-06-27 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} A project of Humanitarian Outcomes, it receives funding from USAID. Since 1997, it has tracked incidents of violence such as abduction, killing, serious injury, and sexual assault but not safety incidents like vehicle crashes or accidental detonations during mine clearing projects. Aid workers are defined as employees and other staff of non-profit aid organizations providing humanitarian relief, such as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, non-governmental organizations, UNDP, UNRWA, WHO, UNICEF, and other UN agencies. The database does not track attacks on UN peacekeepers, election monitors, or employees of advocacy organizations.{{Cite web |date=September 2021 |title=Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) Codebook |url=https://humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSD-codebook |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Humanitarian Outcomes}}

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is another database that includes attacks on humanitarian workers in addition to other conflict-related incidents.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-13 |title=Methodology |url=https://acleddata.com/resources/methodology/ |access-date=2020-05-13 |website=ACLED |language=en-US}} Insecurity Insight produces monthly Aid in Danger reports that highlight attacks during the month from news media, the AWSD and ACLED.{{Cite web |date=15 December 2018 |title=Insecurity Insight » Aid in Danger |url=http://insecurityinsight.org/projects/aid-in-danger |access-date=2020-05-13 |language=en-US}}

Major incidents recorded by the Aid Worker Security Database include killings, kidnappings, and attacks resulting in serious injury. The data is verified through December 31, 2023.{{Cite web |title=Total incidents by country (1997-2023) {{!}} Aid Worker Security Database |url=https://www.aidworkersecurity.org/incidents/report/country |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.aidworkersecurity.org}}{{Cite web |title=About the data {{!}} Aid Worker Security Database |url=https://www.aidworkersecurity.org/about |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.aidworkersecurity.org}} A full list of major incidents from 1997 to the present, can be found on the organization's website.

Accidents and illnesses contribute only a minority of reported aid worker deaths; the majority are caused by deliberate violence, most commonly File:Canadian Aid Workers Monument.jpg in Ottawa, 2005]]

shootings and air strikes.{{Cite journal |last1=Sheik |first1=Mani |last2=Gutierrez |first2=Maria Isabel |last3=Bolton |first3=Paul |date=July 2000 |title=Deaths among humanitarian workers |journal=BMJ |volume=321 |issue=7254 |pages=166–168 |doi=10.1136/bmj.321.7254.166 |pmc=1118167 |pmid=10894699 }}{{Cite book |last=Stoddard |first=Abby |url=https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030264109 |title=Necessary Risks: Professional Humanitarianism and Violence against Aid Workers |date=2020 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-030-26410-9 |language=en |chapter=Tracking the Toll: Measuring Violence Against Aid Workers}} Road travel is by far the most dangerous context for aid workers, who can be attacked via ambushes, IEDs, or fake checkpoints. Others include raids and individual attacks.

A large contributor to violence against aid workers is abduction, though most are not fatal. On average, foreign aid workers are abducted for a longer period than local staff due to higher ransom demands from kidnappers. Previously, abduction was the highest cause of violence, after the number of kidnappings quadrupled between 2002 and 2012.{{Cite web |year=2013 |title=Aid Worker Security Report 2013 |url=https://aidworkersecurity.org/sites/default/files/AidWorkerSecurityReport_2013_web.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200730083503/https://aidworkersecurity.org/sites/default/files/AidWorkerSecurityReport_2013_web.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-30 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Humanitarian Outcomes}}

In 2008, 260 aid workers were attacked, the highest since the AWSD began in 1997.Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer and Victoria DiDomenico (2009) [http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=3250&title=violence-aid-workers-operational-response-2009 Providing Aid in Insecure Environments: Trends in violence against aid workers and the operational response (2009 Update)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430172646/http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=3250&title=violence-aid-workers-operational-response-2009|date=April 30, 2010}} Overseas Development Institute The record increased in 2011 when 308 aid workers were attacked. Between 2013 and 2018, an average of 127 aid workers were killed, 120 injured, and 104 abducted per year. Between 1997 and 2018, the countries with the greatest total number of attacks on aid workers were Afghanistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, and Syria. During the Global War on Terror, including the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan, the number of attacks in the Middle East and Central Africa grew. After the CIA used a sham polio vaccination program to locate and kill Osama bin Laden, violence against vaccination aid workers increased.

In 2019, the record for aid workers who were attacked increased again to 483.{{cite web |date=17 August 2020 |title=Attacks on aid workers reached record high in 2019, the humanitarian organisation says |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/aid-workers-attacks-humanitarian-work-syria-congo-a9673796.html |accessdate=17 August 2020 |website=The Independent}} In 2023, 595 aid workers were attacked. 280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries,163 of which died in Gaza during the first three months of the Gaza War. The countries with the next highest number of deaths were South Sudan with 34 deaths and Sudan with 25.{{Cite web |date=July 2024 |title=Figures at a Glance 2024 |url=https://humanitarianoutcomes.org/figures_at_a_glance_2024 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Humanitarian Outcomes}} By November 2024, 281 aid workers had been killed, making 2024 the deadliest year for aid workers on record. 175 of the deaths occurred in Gaza. Additionally the UN stated that 333 aid workers had been killed thus far in the Gaza War, the highest number recorded in a single crisis.{{Cite web |last1=Haddad |first1=Mohammed |last2=Ali |first2=Marium |date=25 Nov 2024 |title=Targeting humanitarians? More aid workers killed in 2024 than ever |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/25/murdering-humanitarians-more-aid-workers-killed-in-2024-than-ever |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=McKernan |first=Bethan |date=2024-12-01 |title=Unrwa suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza route after convoy attacked |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/01/unrwa-suspends-aid-deliveries-gaza-armed-gangs-attack-convoy |access-date=2024-12-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2024-11-22 |title=2024 deadliest year ever for aid workers, UN humanitarian office reports |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157371 |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=UN News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-09-23 |title=The number of aid workers killed in Gaza in the past year is the highest ever in a single crisis. |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/statement-by-iasc-23sept24/ |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=United Nations Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}

It is often hard to ascertain a motive for attacks on aid workers; for instance, in 55% of the incidents recorded by the AWSD in 2008, the motive was described as "undetermined". However, of those that were determined, political motivations have increased (29% of the determined total in 2003 to 49% in 2008) relative to economic motivations, or when the victim's status as an aid worker was only incidental. Aid workers can be targeted for political reasons both directly and by association. Sometimes the humanitarian organisation may be targeted for something that it has done or a statement it has made, or simply for the delivery of aid to a population, to whom others do not wish aid to reach. It can also be targeted as a result of being associated as an entity collaborating with a group or government seen as an enemy, leading humanitarian organizations to strive be seen as politically independent and neutral. However, evidence shows that this has little impact and instead that western aid agencies are perceived as an intrinsic part of western governments' agendas and not merely associated with it.

Afghanistan reflected this dynamic during the War on Terror when it was one of the most dangerous countries for humanitarian workers to operate. In 2007, 61% of incidents there were carried out by criminals and 39% by political opposition groups, but in 2008, 65% of incidents were the work of armed opposition groups. According to a 2009 report by Humanitarian Outcomes, this increase in politically motivated attacks may have occurred because Afghan locals stopped distinguishing between organisations who worked with the US military and those who did not, with the notable exception of the ICRC. In remote areas, humanitarian workers sometimes represented the only accessible western target. However, at least two studies did not find evidence indicating heightened aid worker insecurity in provinces where the US military was present.Watts, Clinton. 2004. [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA467616.pdf Indicators of NGO security in Afghanistan]. West Point: United States Military Academy, The Combating Terrorism Center.{{cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=David |year=2015 |title=Blurred Lines? Provincial Reconstruction Teams and NGO Insecurity in Afghanistan, 2010–2011 |journal=Stability: International Journal of Security & Development |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.5334/sta.ev |id=Art. 9 |doi-access=free}}

A full downloadable list of major incidents, from 1997–present, of violence against aid workers, can be found at the Aid Worker Security Database.{{Cite web|title=The Aid Worker Security Database, 1997-present {{!}} The Aid Worker Security Database|url=https://aidworkersecurity.org/incidents|website=aidworkersecurity.org|access-date=2020-05-13}}

• October 12 – Edith Cavell was a British Red Cross nurse who was executed for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium during World War I.{{Cite web |title=Remembering Edith Cavell: a brave British Red Cross nurse |url=https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/our-movement/our-history/remembering-edith-cavell-a-brave-first-world-war-nurse |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=British Red Cross |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Norton-Taylor |first=Richard |date=2005-10-12 |title=How British diplomats failed Edith Cavell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/12/freedomofinformation.politics |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Realfonzo |first=Ugo |date=2023-10-12 |title=A mysterious discovery: First World War hero Edith Cavell's plaque found in British garage |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/732229/a-mysterious-discovery-first-world-war-hero-edith-cavells-plaque-found-in-british-garage |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Brussels Times |language=en}}

• August 17 – Two UN officials, Jean Plicque and Francois Preziosi, were killed by rebels. Plicque was a member of the ILO, and Preziosi was the first member of UNHCR to be killed in the line of duty.{{Cite news |date=1964-08-31 |title=Bodies of U. N. Aides Found |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/31/archives/bodies-of-u-n-aides-found.html |access-date=2022-08-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=1964-08-19 |title=U. S. Expected to Help Pay For African Units in Congo; Williams Indicates Aid if Troops Are Sent to Put Down Revolts in East—Rebels Kill Two U.N. Officials |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/19/archives/u-s-expected-to-help-pay-for-african-units-in-congo-williams.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803131649/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/19/archives/u-s-expected-to-help-pay-for-african-units-in-congo-williams.html |archive-date=2022-08-03 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=UNHCR pays tribute to staff killed in the line of duty, marking World Humanitarian Day 2013 |url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/unhcr-pays-tribute-staff-killed-line-duty-marking-world-humanitarian-day-2013 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=UNHCR |language=en}}

• December 1987 to February 1988 – According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Israeli forces regularly attacked ambulances by firing on them, assaulting their crews, or preventing them from transporting patients to hospital. These attacks occurred in various locations including Jabalia, Hableh, Nablus, and Saeer. On January 23, Israeli forces commandeered an ambulance and used it to transport themselves into Bani Na'im village.{{Cite web |date=1988-04-25 |title=Health conditions in the OPT – Report by Palestine Red Crescent Society – Letter from Palestine |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-193975/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=United Nations {{!}} Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Rigby |first=Andrew |date=1991 |title=Coping with the "Epidemic of Violence": The Struggle over Health Care in the Intifada |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537437 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=86–98 |doi=10.2307/2537437 |jstor=2537437 |issn=0377-919X|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |date=May 1989 |title=FORTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY |url=https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/171213/WHA42_1989-REC-3_eng.pdf |website=WHO |page=246}}

• January 27 – Three British aid workers from Crown Agents/ UNHCR were ambushed in their vehicle in Zenica. One, Paul Goodall, died and the other two were wounded while fleeing.{{Cite web |date=1994-01-28 |title=U.N. relief driver killed, two hurt in Bosnian ambush - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/01/28/UN-relief-driver-killed-two-hurt-in-Bosnian-ambush/1955759733200/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=UPI |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=1994-02-05 |title=British aid driver 'was shot in back of head' |url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/british-aid-driver-was-shot-in-back-of-head-1391994.html |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=The Independent |language=en}} Three of the gunmen were later killed by security forces; another was arrested but escaped.{{Cite news |date=2011-05-31 |title=Justice bid for Pendle victim of Bosnian conflict |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9056454.justice-bid-pendle-victim-bosnian-conflict/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}
• July 5 – Christine Witcutt, a Scottish aid worker from Edinburgh Direct Aid, was shot and killed by a sniper after delivering supplies to a Sarajevo hospital.{{Citation

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• January 2 – A gunman killed Sean Devereux, a British worker for UNICEF in Kismayu.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/unicef-quits-town-after-british-aid-man-killed-1476428.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Karl | last=Maier | title=Unicef quits town after British aid man killed | date=January 4, 1993}}{{Cite news |date=1993-04-07 |title=Getting away with murder in Somalia |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/04/08/getting-away-with-murder-in-somalia/09e60a77-a6e0-4443-83da-e10bf7e517c0/ |newspaper=Washington Post}}
• February 22 – Gunmen killed Valerie Place, an Irish nurse with the charity Concern.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/somali-gunmen-murder-irish-nurse-1474693.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Francis | last=Mdlongwa | title=Somali gunmen murder Irish nurse | date=February 23, 1993}}{{Cite web |date=1993-02-23 |title=AMBUSH SLAYING OF NURSE STUNS COLLEAGUES IN SOMALIA |url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/2/23/19033742/ambush-slaying-of-nurse-stuns-colleagues-in-somalia/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Deseret News |publisher=Associated Press |language=en}}

• July 11 – Nine ICRC employees were killed during the Srebrenica massacre. Between 2005 and 2011, their bodies were found and identified in mass graves. They are currently buried at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial.{{Cite web |date=2015-07-09 |title=Remembering nine ICRC employees killed 20 years ago in Srebrenica {{!}} International Committee of the Red Cross |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/remembering-nine-icrc-employees-killed-20-years-ago-srebrenica |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=ICRC |language=en}}

• June 4 – Three Swiss ICRC workers were killed in an attack on two vehicles on the road between the villages of Rugombo and Mugina in Cibitoke Province, resulting in a withdrawal of the ICRC from Burundi.{{Cite news |date=1996-06-05 |title=Three Red Cross Workers Gunned Down in Burundi |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/06/05/three-red-cross-workers-gunned-down-in-burundi/79f4cc9d-b0a5-4241-a453-aa4a626c1d51/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250210012400/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/06/05/three-red-cross-workers-gunned-down-in-burundi/79f4cc9d-b0a5-4241-a453-aa4a626c1d51/ |archive-date=2025-02-10 |newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite news |last= |date=1996-06-06 |title=Red Cross Suspends Operations in Burundi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/world/red-cross-suspends-operations-in-burundi.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250210012330/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/world/red-cross-suspends-operations-in-burundi.html |archive-date=2025-02-10 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• December 17 – Six ICRC workers were killed in an attack on the Novye Atagi hospital. ICRC withdrew all expatriate staff from Chechnya.{{Cite news |last=Stanley |first=Alessandra |date=1996-12-19 |title=Slain Red Cross Aides Lived With Danger |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/19/world/slain-red-cross-aides-lived-with-danger.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204191730/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/19/world/slain-red-cross-aides-lived-with-danger.html |archive-date=2018-02-04 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=1996-12-18 |title=Gunmen kill aid workers in Chechnya |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/12/18/gunmen-kill-aid-workers-in-chechnya/3b4f5350-4c72-4750-bd0d-25c13a33a4c8/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite journal |last=Hensch |first=Christoph |date=April 2016 |title=Twenty years after Novye Atagi: A call to care for the carers |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1889038301 |access-date=2025-02-10 |journal=International Review of the Red Cross |volume=98 |issue=901 |pages=299–314 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S1816383116000588|id={{ProQuest|1889038301}} }}

• November 23 – The UN successfully negotiated with clan elders for the release of five aid workers kidnapped from a boat in the Somaliland region.{{Cite news |date=1997-11-25 |title=SOMALI CAPTORS RELEASE KIDNAPPED AID WORKERS |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1997/11/25/somali-captors-release-kidnapped-aid-workers/d9415cad-ec34-41a6-8058-5c3198cf05df/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250206205812/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1997/11/25/somali-captors-release-kidnapped-aid-workers/d9415cad-ec34-41a6-8058-5c3198cf05df/ |archive-date=2025-02-06 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite web |date=1997-11-23 |title=Aid Workers Taken Hostage From Boat Off Somalia Two Kenyans In Group, Along With Briton, Indian, Canadian |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/nov/23/aid-workers-taken-hostage-from-boat-off-somalia/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}

• December – A French aid worker, Karine Mane, was taken hostage and died two weeks later during a failed rescue mission by government forces.{{Cite web |date=1997-12-01 |title=French hostage in Tajikistan killed after rescue is botched |url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/french-hostage-in-tajikistan-killed-after-rescue-is-botched-1286265.html |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=The Independent |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=1997-12-02 |title=BBC News {{!}} Despatches {{!}} Tajik rebel leader reported killed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/36294.stm |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}

• April 21 – 10 aid workers were held hostage.{{Cite web |date=1998-04-24 |title=Somalia aid worker hostages released |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/82950.stm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=BBC News}}{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1998-04-25 |title=8 Aid Workers and 2 Pilots Freed by Somali Gunmen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/25/world/8-aid-workers-and-2-pilots-freed-by-somali-gunmen.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527084007/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/25/world/8-aid-workers-and-2-pilots-freed-by-somali-gunmen.html |archive-date=2015-05-27 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• June 10 – Three Sudanese UN staff were killed and three wounded when gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle.

• June 15 – Two aid workers were killed when gunmen ambushed and robbed them.{{Cite web |date=1999-06-14 |title=Angola: Humanitarian workers murdered - Angola {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/angola/angola-humanitarian-workers-murdered |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}

• January – Irish aid worker Ken Hickey was robbed and murdered.{{Cite news |date=1999-01-23 |title=Irish aid worker is murdered in Lesotho |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irish-aid-worker-is-murdered-in-lesotho-1.1257408 |access-date=2025-02-02 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=1999-02-04 |title=Ex-ruler held for Irishman's murder |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ex-ruler-held-for-irishmans-murder/26158779.html |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}

• May 26 – Three aid workers, including Steve Pratt, were put on trial for spying Belgrade.{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} Europe {{!}} Serb TV parades Australian 'spy' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/316832.stm |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}{{Cite web |date=2005-08-03 |title=Aid agency sued over Serbian trauma |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/aid-agency-sued-over-serbian-trauma-20050803-gdlsxn.html |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

• January 27 – A Kenyan aid worker was killed by gunmen.

• January 4 – Four ICRC staff were killed by the SPLA

• October 2 – A French aid worker was killed.

• December 9 – Seven people working for the UN mine clearance programme were killed in an ambush.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2000-08-07 |title=U.N. Workers Among 12 Killed by Gunmen in Afghanistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/07/world/un-workers-among-12-killed-by-gunmen-in-afghanistan.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• December 30 – A British voluntary worker was one of 20 people killed by gunmen.

• February 9 – A medical organisation suspended operations in parts of Ethiopia after the killing of a staff member.

• September 17 – Killing of one UNHCR staff member and the abduction of another in Macenta.{{Cite web |title=UN worker killed, another abducted in Guinea |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/un-worker-killed-another-abducted-in-guinea-43184 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.iol.co.za |language=en}}
• December 7 – Hundreds of people were killed after rebels destroyed a UNHCR centre.

• June 28 – Two FAO workers were shot and killed in Baghdad.

• December 10 – Three aid workers were killed in Aceh.{{Cite web |last=Paddock |first=Richard C. |date=2000-12-13 |title=Aid Worker in Indonesia Escaped Executioners to Tell His Tale |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-13-mn-64888-story.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
• September 6 – Five UNHCR staff members, Samson Aregahegn (Supply Officer); Carlos Caceres-Collazo (Protection Officer); and Pero Simundza (Telecommunications Operator) and two Indonesians were killed when their office was attacked by militia in Atambua, Belu Regency, West Timor.{{Cite web |last=Paddock |first=Richard C. |date=2001-05-05 |title=Killers of 3 Aid Workers Are Shown Leniency |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-05-mn-59658-story.html |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last1=Richardson |first1=Michael |last2=Tribune |first2=International Herald |date=2000-09-08 |title=Militia Violence Is Seen as Threat to Stability : Wahid Is Pressed Anew After Killings in Timor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/08/IHT-militia-violence-is-seen-as-threat-to-stability-wahid-is-pressed-anew.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• March 2 – A Liberian Voluntary Humanitarian Samuel W. Sargbah was killed in his car in Kigali.{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} AFRICA {{!}} 'Assassination' in Kigali |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/668046.stm |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}

• June 19 – British aid worker Alan Smith was freed after being held for one month by the Revolutionary United Front.{{Cite web |date=2000-06-19 |title=British aid worker freed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/797440.stm |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=BBC News}}

• January 3 – A local CARE staff was shot dead in an ambush in Balad.
• January 4 – A CARE worker was shot dead in an ambush North of Mogadishu.
• January 31 – Attacks on a convoy of aid vehicles left 20 people dead.

• January 9 – Two CARE staff were killed and 2 went missing after an ambush.

• August 6 – Eight aid workers were killed when their vehicle was attacked near the border with Uganda.

• November 15 – Eight western aid workers were rescued after the Taliban imprisoned them on charges of spreading Christianity.{{Cite news |date=2001-11-15 |title=8 Western aid workers are freed |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/11/15/8-western-aid-workers-are-freed/6b363d5a-e247-40ae-a66c-c77ba83f2112/ |newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite news |last= |date=2001-11-16 |title=Freed aid workers describe Taliban jail rescue |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/16/afghanistan.terrorism16 |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• April 18 – Aid worker Viktor Popkov was fatally wounded and two others injured in a shooting attack in Alkhan-Kala.

• April 27 – Six ICRC staff were killed.{{Cite news |last=Capella |first=Peter |date=2001-04-28 |title=Six Red Cross workers killed in Congo attack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/apr/28/2 |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• October 4 – Three people, including a Red Cross worker who had been tortured, were killed in Banda Aceh.

• March 27 – The MSF compound was attacked by gunmen in Mogadishu.{{Cite news |last1=Astill |first1=James |last2=Allison |first2=Rebecca |date=2001-03-28 |title=Somali gunmen kidnap three Britons |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/28/rebeccaallison.jamesastill |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=2001-03-27 |title=Somali gunmen attack aid workers |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1245263.stm |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• June 16 – Kidnappers asked for the release of detained militants after taking a group of aid workers hostage.{{Cite web |last= |last2= |last3= |date=2001-06-17 |title=4 of 15 Aid Workers Released in Tajikistan |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-17-mn-11543-story.html |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2001-06-16 |title=Aid workers seized in Tajikistan |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1391632.stm |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• August 12 – A Dutch MSF worker, Arjan Erkel, was abducted in Makhachkala. He was released 20 months later.{{Cite news |date=2002-08-14 |title=Aid group leaves Dagestan |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2193583.stm |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |date=2004-04-12 |title=Dutch Worker In Chechnya Is Released After 2 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/world/dutch-worker-in-chechnya-is-released-after-2-years.html |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• February 23 – A Swiss woman who ran a small aid agency was shot dead in Mogadishu.
• February 28 – A Somali UN worker was kidnapped in Mogadishu hours after the region was declared too dangerous for permanent UN presence.

• March 4 – A PRCS ambulance was attacked by the IDF, causing the oxygen tanks to catch fire. A second ambulance sent to rescue the first was also attacked. Khalil Suleiman, head of PRCS emergency medical services, was killed and five other ambulance workers from both ambulances were injured.{{Cite web |date=March 2002 |title=Wounded in the Field: Impeding Medical Treatment and Firing at Ambulances by IDF Soldiers in the Occupied Territories |url=https://www.btselem.org/download/200203_medical_treatment_eng.pdf |website=B'Tselem}}{{Cite web |date=2002-03-08 |title=Israel: Cease Attacking Medical Personnel {{!}} Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/03/08/israel-cease-attacking-medical-personnel |access-date=2025-01-10 |language=en}}{{cite web |date=14 March 2002 |title=Attacks on health personnel and disrupted health care |url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engMDE150182002?OpenDocument |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922061251/http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engMDE150182002?OpenDocument |archive-date=22 September 2006 |publisher=Amnesty International}}
• November 22 – Iain Hook, an UNRWA project manager from the UK, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin. Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish human rights activist, was also shot in the foot.{{Cite news |date=2005-12-13 |title=UN worker 'refused flak jacket' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/4524962.stm |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• November 16 – UNHCR staff person Bettina Goislard was shot dead by a motorcycle-borne gunman while travelling by car in Ghazni.{{Cite news |last= |date=2003-11-17 |title=UN woman shot dead 'by Taliban' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/17/afghanistan.unitednations |access-date=2025-02-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2003-11-18 |title=Taliban concedes killing UN worker |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/11/18/taliban-concedes-killing-un-worker |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}
• March 24 – ICRC staff member Ricardo Munguia was shot and killed in an ambush north of Kandahar. He was working as a water engineer in Afghanistan and travelling with local colleague when their car was stopped by unknown armed men. He was killed execution-style at point-blank range while his colleagues were allowed to escape. The killing prompted the ICRC to temporarily suspend operations across Afghanistan.{{Cite news |last=Gall |first=Carlotta |date=2003-03-28 |title=Red Cross Worker Is Killed by Gunmen in Afghanistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/worldspecial/red-cross-worker-is-killed-by-gunmen-in.html |access-date=2025-02-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=2003-03-28 |title=Red Cross worker killed in Afghanistan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/red-cross-worker-killed-in-afghanistan-112842.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220709045740/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/red-cross-worker-killed-in-afghanistan-112842.html |archive-date=2022-07-09 |access-date=2025-02-09 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}

• March 16 – Rachel Corrie an American member of ISM was killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bulldozer when attempting to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian's home.{{Cite news |title=21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241231447/rachel-corrie-gaza-palestinians-aid-israel-hamas-war |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=NPR |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-17 |title=Rachel Corrie was killed by the IDF 20 years ago. Her parents still fight for justice |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rachel-corrie-death-parents-gaza-idf-b2303078.html |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
• April 11 – Tom Hurndall was a British photography student and member of ISM who was killed by an IDF sniper. Hurndall was left in a coma and died nine months later. His killer Taysir Hayb was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for manslaughter and obstruction of justice but was released after serving six and a half years of his sentence.{{Cite news |last=Shabi |first=Rachel |date=2010-09-08 |title=Israeli soldier jailed for killing British activist Tom Hurndall released early |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/08/israeli-soldier-released-tom-hurndall |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=UK activist shooting: Soldier held |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/1/1/uk-activist-shooting-soldier-held |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}

• August 19 – The Canal Hotel bombing targeted the UN headquarters and killed at least 24 people including UN Special Representative for Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello and aid worker Gillian Clark.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-18 |title=How a suicide bomb attack changed the lives of UN aid workers |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66524445 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=UN still feels impact of deadly Iraq blast |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/un-still-feels-impact-of-deadly-iraq-blast/bt2r7gt0e |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=SBS News |date=17 August 2013 |language=en}}
• October 27 – An attack on the ICRC building killed at least 12 people in Baghdad.{{Cite news |date=2003-10-27 |title=Up to 40 die in Baghdad attacks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/27/iraq |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite journal |date=2003-11-01 |title=Humanitarian community stunned by Red Cross attack in Iraq |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)14729-0/abstract |journal=The Lancet|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14729-0 |pmid=14603922 |last1=Kapp |first1=Clare |volume=362 |issue=9394 |page=1461 }}

• February 26 – Five Afghans working for the Sanayee Development Foundation were killed when their vehicle was ambushed northeast of Kabul.{{Cite news |last=Gall |first=Carlotta |date=2004-06-03 |title=Five Aid Workers Shot to Death In an Ambush in Afghanistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/world/five-aid-workers-shot-to-death-in-an-ambush-in-afghanistan.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• April 28 – Two Afghan aid workers and a soldier were killed in an attack in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar.{{Cite web |date=2004-04-28 |title=Afghanistan: Two aid workers killed in attack on NGO - Afghanistan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-two-aid-workers-killed-attack-ngo |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}
• June 2 – Five staff working for Médecins Sans Frontières were killed on the road between Khairkhana and Qala e Naw in Badghis Province, resulting in the complete withdrawal of MSF from Afghanistan. The names of the murdered staff were: Hélène de Beir, Willem Kwint, Egil Tynaes, Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah.{{Cite web |title=MSF condemns fatal attack on aid workers {{!}} MSF |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-condemns-fatal-attack-aid-workers |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.msf.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=MSF shocked by death of 5 staff in Afghanistan {{!}} MSF |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-shocked-death-5-staff-afghanistan |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.msf.org |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=Duncan |date=2004-06-04 |title=MSF halts Afghan operations |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/04/afghanistan.duncancampbell |access-date=2025-02-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• March 15 – Larry Elliott, Jean Dover Elliott, Karen Denise Watson, and David McDonnall were killed in a drive-by shooting in Mosul. They were US missionaries for Southern Baptist International Mission Board.

• October 10 – A Save the Children vehicle was hit by an anti-tank landmine in the Um Barro area in North Darfur. Two members of staff travelling in the vehicle were killed, namely Rafe Bullick (British, Programme Manager, North Darfur) and Nourredine Issa Tayeb (Sudanese, Water Engineer).{{Cite news |date=2004-10-12 |title=Family in tribute to 'hero' aid worker |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/family-in-tribute-to-hero-aid-worker/28049409.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite news |last=Sturcke |first=James |date=2004-12-13 |title=Charity suspends south Darfur operations after attack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/dec/13/internationalaidanddevelopment.sudan |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• April 16 – Marla Ruzicka, founder of the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), and her Iraqi translator, Faiz Ali Salim, were killed by a suicide car bombing on Airport Road in Baghdad.{{Cite news |last=Steele |first=Jonathan |date=2005-04-19 |title=Marla Ruzicka |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/apr/19/internationalaidanddevelopment.guardianobituaries |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |title=Home/Front: Marla's War : Rough Translation |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011480658/home-front-marlas-war |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=NPR |language=en}}

• November 5 – Collin Lee, who worked for International Aid Services died when his jeep, containing his wife and driver, was ambushed by the LRA.{{Cite news |date=2005-11-07 |title=British aid worker dies in Sudan |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4415214.stm |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2005-11-08 |title=Rebels murder British aid man |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/1502514/Rebels-murder-British-aid-man.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}

• March 4 — Mohammed Hashim, an employee of UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), was killed while monitoring project sites in Farah Province.{{Cite web |date=2006-05-15 |title=The New Humanitarian {{!}} UN condemns killing of aid workers |url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2006/05/15/un-condemns-killing-aid-workers |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.thenewhumanitarian.org |language=en}}https://staging.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=2342&catid=245&typeid=6"UN-HABITAT contractor murdered in Afghanistan" March 6, 2006
• May — Two Afghan staff members from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a driver were killed in a remote controlled bomb attack in Daraeem district.{{Cite web |date=2006-05-30 |title=Afghanistan: Seven aid workers killed - Afghanistan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-seven-aid-workers-killed |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}
• May 15 — Zmarai Azizi, an Afghan doctor working for Malteser International and his local driver Sirajuddin Noorzai, working for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) were killed and one aid worker was seriously wounded when gunmen attacked their car in the Korkh district of western Herat province.
• May 30 — Three female Afghan employees of Action Aid and their driver were killed by Taliban in the northern province of Jowzjan .{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Declan |date=2006-05-30 |title=Taliban blamed for murder of Afghan aid workers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/31/afghanistan.declanwalsh |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2006-05-30 |title=Taliban Militants Kill Three Women Aid Workers, Girls School Attacked |url=https://feminist.org/news/taliban-militants-kill-three-women-aid-workers-girls-school-attacked/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Feminist Majority Foundation |language=en-US}}
• September 12 —Yar Mohammed, an employee of UN-HABITAT, was killed and a second man was injured by gunmen in the western province of Farah, near the village of Shoorab.https://mirror.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=3782&catid=335&typeid=6 "UN-HABITAT staff member murdered in western Afghanistan" September 15, 2006.

• May 15 – An employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council was shot dead on his way back from work in Vavuniya
• August 6 – 17 workers from the aid group Action Against Hunger were found murdered in Muttur. They were working on post-2004 tsunami reconstruction. There had been fierce fighting in the area for more than a week. (See Muttur massacre.)

• December 11 – Ten United Nations staff died in a double car bombing in the capital, Algiers, which killed at least 26 people and injured 177.{{Cite news |last1=Bennhold |first1=Katrin |last2=Smith |first2=Craig S. |date=2007-12-12 |title=Twin Bombs Kill Dozens in Algiers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/world/africa/12algiers.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217172947/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/world/africa/12algiers.html |archive-date=2024-12-17 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=2007-12-11 |title=11 UN workers among 26 killed in Algeria blasts |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/11-un-workers-among-26-killed-in-algeria-blasts-1.636919 |work=CBC}}

• December 31 – An Action Against Hunger vehicle was targeted by shooters in Ruyigi. Five people, including three female expatriate staff of Action Against Hunger, were inside the vehicle. One of them, a French psychologist, died upon arrival at the hospital in Gitega as a result of her injuries. The second victim suffered a gunshot wound. The third expatriate escaped uninjured.

• June 11 – An MSF logistician was killed when her car was hit by gunfire during an assessment mission near Paoua{{Cite web |date=2007-06-11 |title=MSF Aid Worker Killed in the Central African Republic |url=http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=2061 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130722080037/http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=2061 |archive-date=2013-07-22 |website=MSF}}

• June 11 – Two Lebanese Red Cross workers were killed during fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp. The perpetrator and cause of the deaths are disputed.{{Cite web |date=2007-06-12 |title=Lebanon: End Abuse of Palestinians Fleeing Refugee Camp |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/06/12/lebanon-end-abuse-palestinians-fleeing-refugee-camp |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2007-06-11 |title=Two Red Cross Workers Killed In Lebanon - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-red-cross-workers-killed-in-lebanon/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2007-06-12 |title=Lebanese army shells refugee camp |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/lebanon.assault/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119103740/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/lebanon.assault/index.html |archive-date=2013-01-19 |work=CNN}}

• January 10—A driver of the World Food Program was killed in an ambush.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2007-01-12 |title=U.N. driver killed in ambush in southern Sudan |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-brown-idUKL1242304420070312/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220313072752/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-brown-idUKL1242304420070312 |archive-date=2022-03-13 |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Reuters |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2007-01-11 |title=Driver for UN World Food Programme killed during ambush in southern Sudan |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2007/01/205552 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=UN News |language=en}}

• June 3 – Two local Red cross workers were abducted and murdered in Colombo.{{Cite news |date=2007-06-03 |title=Sri Lanka Red Cross staff killed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6716557.stm |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• December 26 – A nurse and a doctor working for MSF in Bossaso were abducted. After one week, they were released.{{Cite news |date=2008-01-02 |title=Two MSF workers freed in Somalia |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7168169.stm |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |date=2008-01-02 |title=2 foreign aid workers freed in Somalia |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/2-foreign-aid-workers-freed-in-somalia-1.761331 |work=CBC}}
• March 23 – 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash

• between 1 January 2006 and 31 August 2007 – A total of 12 humanitarian workers were killed, including four working for the Sudanese government's water project.

• January 14 – Six people, including at least one aid worker from the USA named Thor Hesla, were killed in an attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul.
• January 26 – An aid worker and her Afghan driver were kidnapped in Kandahar, they are presumed dead.
• August 13 – Three female International Rescue Committee (IRC) workers and their local driver were killed in an ambush as they drove back to Kabul from Logar Province. One was an American national.
• October 20 – An aid worker with SERVE Afghanistan was killed as she walked to work in Kabul.

• May 1 – The country director of Save the Children UK was shot dead when his car was attacked near Hadjer Hadid.{{Cite web |date=2008-05-02 |title=French NGO worker murdered in Chad |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20080502-french-ngo-worker-murdered-chad-france-chad |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=France 24 |language=en}}{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2008-05-02 |title=Chad: Gunmen Kill Aid Worker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/world/africa/02briefs-GUNMENKILLAI_BRF.html |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• September 22 – A nurse and a doctor working for Medecins du Monde were kidnapped in Fadhigaradle village (Somali Region) and taken across the border to Somalia. They were released 4 months later [https://bielbienne.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/medecins-du-monde-announces-the-release-of-its-two-volunteers-keiko-akahane-and-wilhem-sools-abducted-on-september-22-2008-in-ethiopia-and-held-in-somalia/].

• January 28 – A surgeon, a logistician and a driver working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were killed when their convoy was attacked between the hospital and their base in Kismayo. [https://archive.today/20130722084117/http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=2481].
• October 17 – A senior programme assistant for the World Food Programme (WFP) was shot and killed as he left a mosque in Merka.
• October 25 – A local worker with the aid agency Iida was killed as she returned from work in Gurilel.
• October 29 – The Hargeisa–Bosaso suicide bombings targeted government and UN buildings, which killed 30 people, including two UN staff.{{Cite web |date=2009-10-29 |title=Somalia: UN commemorates anniversary of Hargeisa bombings - Somalia {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/somalia-un-commemorates-anniversary-hargeisa-bombings |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}{{Cite news |last1=Ibrahim |first1=Mohamed |last2=Gettleman |first2=Jeffrey |date=2008-10-29 |title=5 Suicide Bomb Attacks Hit Somalia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/africa/30somalia.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• May 16 – A Batticaloa-based employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council was abducted while visiting Colombo and disappeared, presumed dead.

• June 30 – An Australian working with foodwatershelter was killed during a robbery in Arusha.{{Cite web |date=2008-07-02 |title=Australian aid worker killed in Africa |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-aid-worker-killed-in-africa-20080702-30s3.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

• October 28 – Five United Nations staff, two Afghan security personnel, and an Afghan civilian were killed by three Taliban attackers in an assault on the Bekhtar Guesthouse in Kabul. Nine other UN staff, also there working for the presidential election, were wounded.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329543.stm | work=BBC News | title=UN chief condemns Kabul killings | date=October 28, 2009}}

• November 22 – Two French aid workers employed by Triangle Generation Humanitaire were kidnapped in Birao and held for 4 months before being freed in Darfur.{{Cite news |date=2010-03-14 |title=Two French hostages freed in Darfur |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20100314-two-french-hostages-freed-darfur |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815122341/https://www.france24.com/en/20100314-two-french-hostages-freed-darfur |archive-date=2022-08-15 |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=France 24 |language=en}}

• August 4 – A logistician working for MSF and his Chadian assistant were kidnapped in Ade. The Chadian was freed soon afterwards while the logistician was released a month later [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8232896.stm].

• Two Chechen aid workers were kidnapped and murdered.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/europe/12chechnya.html The New York Times – Two Chechen Aid Workers Are Killed]

• During Operation Cast Lead, Amnesty International reported that at least 7 Palestinian emergency medical workers were killed and 20 were injured in the line of duty by the Israel Defense Forces.{{Cite web |date=2009-01-28 |title=Attacks on ambulance workers in Gaza |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2009/01/attacks-ambulance-workers-gaza-20090128/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}}

• April 19 – Two MSF doctors were kidnapped and released 9 days later in Bakool. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616194909/http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=3571&cat=press-release].

• October 5 – Three United Nations staff killed in a suicide bombing attack against the office of the World Food Programme in the capital city Islamabad by the Pakistani Taliban.{{Cite web |date=2010-08-26 |title=Pakistani Taliban hint at attacks on aid workers |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38860068 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=NBC News |language=en}}

• October 22 – A French ICRC delegate was kidnapped and released after 5 months in West Darfur. [http://www.panapress.com/Kidnapped-iCRC-worker-freed-in-Sudan--12-534419-30-lang2-index.html].

• An Irish volunteer with the group Camara was killed during a suspected mugging in Zanzibar.{{Cite web |date=2009-08-08 |title=Irish aid worker found dead in Zanzibar |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-aid-worker-found-dead-in-zanzibar/26557069.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2012-04-11 |title=Acquittal in Robert murder trial |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/bray-news/acquittal-in-robert-murder-trial/27650933.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}

• Several aid workers were kidnapped.[https://archive.today/20130209013459/http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-06/2009-06-14-voa9.cfm?CFID=275134120&CFTOKEN=54927137&jsessionid=003088fb9d53b2294cbc54381763d2d53132 Yemen Reports Kidnapping of 9 Foreigners]

• March 27 — Said Anwar was shot and killed by gunmen.{{Cite web |date=2010-03-31 |title=UN envoy to Afghanistan deplores deadly attack against German aid agency {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2010/03/334152 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=news.un.org |language=en}}
• August 5 – On their way back to Kabul after a three week optometry expedition, ten International Assistance Mission aid workers were ambushed, robbed, and executed one by one in Badakhshan. Initially, the Taliban claimed responsibility, but as of 2011, the perpetrator was unknown. The team lead, optometrist Tom Little, was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.{{Cite news |date=2010-08-07 |title=Foreign medical workers among 10 killed in Afghanistan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-10900338 |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Barrett |first=Devlin |date=2010-12-02 |title=Aid Killings Are Unsolved |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704594804575648940403504482 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250204073757/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704594804575648940403504482 |archive-date=2025-02-04 |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite news |date=2011-08-04 |title=Tom Little's widow: "I have to be back there on that day" |url=https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Tom-Little-s-widow-I-have-to-be-back-there-on-1719252.php |work=TimesUnion}}
• September 26 — British aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban. Norgrove died after sustaining injuries from a grenade thrown by US forces attempting to rescue her.{{Cite news |last=Borger |first=Julian |last2= |first2= |date=2010-10-13 |title=Linda Norgrove: US navy Seal faces disciplinary action over grenade death |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/13/linda-norgrove-us-commando-disciplinary |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=2010-10-11 |title=UK aid worker may have been killed by rescuers' grenade |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-11514210 |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• December 24 — A German aid worker was killed and an Afghan colleague was injured on their way to Mazar-i-Sharif by the Taliban.{{Cite web |title=Aid worker killed – DW – 12/25/2010 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/merkel-condemns-deadly-attack-on-german-aid-worker-in-afghanistan/a-14735707 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=dw.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Villarino |first=Eliza |date=2010-12-26 |title=On Christmas Eve, German Aid Worker Killed in Afghanistan |url=https://www.devex.com/news/on-christmas-eve-german-aid-worker-killed-in-afghanistan-71902 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Devex |language=en}}

• June 6 – A logistician working for Oxfam GB was kidnapped in Abéché. He was rescued 10 days later by security forces near the border with Sudan.{{Cite news |date=2010-06-16 |title=Chad forces free Oxfam aid worker kidnapped in Abeche |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10327194 |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• May 31 – During the Gaza flotilla raid, the Israeli navy killed 9 members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip and breach the Israeli naval blockade.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/22/gaza-flotilla-un-condemns-israeli-brutality | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Haroon | last=Siddique | title=Gaza flotilla, Israel (News), Palestinian territories (News), Gaza,World news, United Nations (News) | date=September 22, 2010}}{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10206802 | work=BBC News | title=Activists describe Israeli raid on Gaza aid convoy | date=June 3, 2010}}

• March 10 — Six employees of World Vision were killed and six severely injured when their office in the Mansehra district was targeted for "running programs to help women" in the North-West Frontier Province. 15 gunmen stormed the office, started shooting, threw a bomb and left.{{Cite news |date=2010-03-10 |title=Terrorists execute World Vision workers |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-03-11/terrorists-execute-world-vision-workers/359382 |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=2010-03-11 |title=Killings force closure of aid offices in Pakistan |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/killings-force-closure-of-aid-offices-in-pakistan/360174 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=ABC listen |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=2010-03-10 |title=Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan - Pakistan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/gunmen-kill-6-western-aid-agency-raid-pakistan |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2010-03-11 |title=ANALYSIS-Pakistani Taliban militants may be down, but not out - Pakistan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/analysis-pakistani-taliban-militants-may-be-down-not-out |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}

• October – Two Spanish women who worked for Médecins sans Frontières were kidnapped by gunmen in Dadaab{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/13/aid-workers-kidnapped-kenyan-camp|title=Two aid workers kidnapped from Kenyan refugee camp|last=Rice|first=Xan|date=2011-10-13|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-09-11|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} and released in July 2013.

• August 26 – The United Nations Headquarters in Abuja was attacked by a suicide car bomber, killing at least 18 people, injuring dozens, and causing massive devastation to the building itself. Boko Haram claimed responsibility.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14677957 | work=BBC News | title=Abuja attack: Car bomb hits Nigeria UN building | date=August 26, 2011}}

• December 29 – A doctor and a logistician working for MSF were shot to death in their compound in Mogadishu.{{Cite web |date=2011-12-29 |title=MSF Shocked And Deeply Saddened By The Killing Of Two Staff Members In Mogadishu, Somalia |url=http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=5709&cat=press-release |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105105752/http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=5709&cat=press-release |archive-date=January 5, 2012 |website=Doctors Without Borders}}{{Cite web |date=2011-12-30 |title=Two aid workers shot dead |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2011/12/30/two-aid-workers-shot-dead-in-somalia |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}

• September 7 – An attack on an ambulance by unknown assailants injured three rescuers and the wounded patient it was transporting in Homs, one of the rescuers, Hakam Drak Sibai, died due to his wounds.{{Cite web|date=2011-09-14|title=Syria: Red Crescent Workers Under Attack|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/14/syria-red-crescent-workers-under-attack|access-date=2021-09-18|website=Human Rights Watch|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Volunteer medic shot dead by Assad's security forces|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-09-16/volunteer-medic-shot-dead-assad-s-security-forces|access-date=2021-09-18|website=The World from PRX|date=August 2016 |language=en}}
• December 23 – Two United Nations aid workers and a 3rd colleague were shot to death in Mataban, Hiran. The UN workers, who worked specifically for the World Food Program, had been monitoring the distribution of food and camps for internally displaced peoples. United Nations operations in Mataban were temporarily suspended.{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-23/africa/world_africa_somalia-aid-workers-killed_1_humanitarian-workers-aid-workers-somalia?_s=PM:AFRICA |work=CNN |title=3 humanitarian workers killed in Somalia - CNN.com |date=December 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307194804/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-23/africa/world_africa_somalia-aid-workers-killed_1_humanitarian-workers-aid-workers-somalia?_s=PM%3AAFRICA |archivedate=2012-03-07 }}

• July – Two Norwegian Refugee Council vehicles were attacked while traveling in Dadaab refugee camp. A Kenyan driver was killed, and Steve Dennis and four other international staff were abducted for several days. After their rescue by a militia, Dennis sued Norwegian Refugee Council for negligence and was awarded 4.4 million Norwegian kroner.{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Holly |date=2015-12-05 |title=Steve Dennis and the court case that sent waves through the aid industry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/dec/05/steve-dennis-court-case-waves-aid-industry |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• July 17 – UN polio vaccine doctor from Ghana was shot in Karachi. His driver was also injured.{{Cite news |last=Shah |first=Saeed |date=2012-07-17 |title=Shooting of UN doctor imperils Pakistan's campaign against polio |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/17/shooting-un-doctor-pakistan-polio |access-date=2024-11-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• December 17 – A series of attacks occurred against a polio eradication program, killing five female health workers, including one teenage volunteer in Karachi and Peshawar.{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Jason |last2= |first2= |date=2012-12-18 |title=Polio vaccination workers shot dead in Pakistan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/polio-vaccination-workers-shot-pakistan |access-date=2024-11-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• June – A Yemeni staff member of the ICRC was killed in an air strike by the Yemeni Armed Forces in Abyan. According to his family, he had been working on a colleague's release from kidnappers.{{Cite web |date=2012-06-21 |title='Fighters killed' in Yemen air raids |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/6/21/fighters-killed-in-yemen-air-raids |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2012-06-20 |title=Yemen: Red Cross worker dies in air strike in Abyan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18528751 |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• May 29 – An ICRC compound in Jalalabad was attacked by a suicide bomber and gunmen, resulting in the death of a guard and injuries to an employee.{{Cite news |last=Chappell |first=Bill |date=2013-05-29 |title=Bomber Attacks International Red Cross's Afghan Compound |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/29/187047648/bomber-attacks-international-red-crosss-afghan-compound |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=NPR |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2013-05-29 |title=Afghanistan: Red Cross office in Jalalabad attacked |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22705575 |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• July 4 — Two employees of World Vision, Sabil Mansour and Ali Ibrahim were killed due to a grenade explosion at their compound near Nyala.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-07 |title=Second World Vision Employee Dies from Injuries |url=https://www.wvi.org/pressrelease/second-world-vision-employee-dies-injuries |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.wvi.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Steffan |first=Melissa |date=2013-07-09 |title=Darfur Shootout Kills Two World Vision Workers |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/07/shoot-out-in-darfur-kill-two-world-vision-workers/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Christianity Today |language=en-US}}

• May – Three ICRC staff were kidnapped while working in Abyan and released after a few days.{{Cite web |date=2013-05-16 |title=Kidnapped Red Cross workers released in Yemen |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/5/16/kidnapped-red-cross-workers-released-in-yemen |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Smith-Spark |first1=Laura |last2=Abedine |first2=Saad |date=2013-05-16 |title=Kidnapped Red Cross workers freed in Yemen |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/world/meast/yemen-hostages-freed/index.html |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=CNN |language=en}}

• August 3 – Kayla Mueller was an American aid worker taken captive by ISIS in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital. In 2015, she was killed in uncertain circumstances.{{Cite web |last=Ellis |first=Ralph |date=2015-02-12 |title='Enormous resources' on rescue attempt for Kayla Mueller, Obama says |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/middleeast/mueller-rescue-attempts/ |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=CNN |language=en}}

• Two Finnish aid workers with the International Assistance Mission, a Christian medical charity, were shot and killed in Herat by two men on motorbikes. The women were in a taxi when shot.{{cite news|title=Militants gun down Finnish aid workers in Afghanistan|url=http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/224095835/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ht/Militants-gun-down-Finish-aid-workers-in-Afghanistan|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140806020136/http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/224095835/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ht/Militants-gun-down-Finish-aid-workers-in-Afghanistan|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 August 2014|accessdate=25 July 2014|publisher=Afghanistan Sun}}

• September – British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines was kidnapped near the Atmeh refugee camp in Idlib Province near the Turkish border.{{cite news|last1=Robinson|first1=Nick|title=British hostage: PM says UK will not be 'cowed' by threats|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29040550|accessdate=8 September 2014|work=BBC News|date=3 September 2014}} He was seized along with an Italian aid worker and two Syrians who were later freed. Haines was apparently executed by a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant called Mohammed Emwazi.{{cite news|last1=Holmes|first1=Oliver|title=Islamic State video purports to show beheading of UK hostage David Haines|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-crisis-execution-idUSKBN0H80SE20140914|accessdate=14 September 2014|work=Reuters|date=14 September 2014}}
• October – Alan Henning was a British aid worker with Al-Fatiha Global who was kidnapped and killed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a beheading video.{{Cite news |date=2014-10-03 |title=Alan Henning 'killed by Islamic State' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29485405 |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• An ICRC worker was killed by a shell in Donetsk.

• October 30 – The Kunduz hospital airstrike by the United States military killed 42 Médecins Sans Frontières staff and patients.{{Cite news |author=Chris Johnston and agencies |date=12 Dec 2015 |title=MSF Afghanistan hospital airstrike death toll reaches 42 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/12/msf-afghanistan-hospital-airstrike-death-toll-42 |access-date=5 October 2021}}

• September – ISIS claimed responsibility for the killing of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella in Dhaka.{{Cite news |last1=Manik |first1=Julfikar Ali |last2=Barstow |first2=David |date=2015-09-29 |title=ISIS Says It Killed Italian Aid Worker in Bangladesh |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/world/asia/-isis-bangladesh-cesare-tavella.html |access-date=2025-03-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=2016-06-28 |title=Bangladesh charges seven over killing of Italian aid worker |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36649870 |access-date=2025-03-05 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Jason |last2=Kirchgaessner |first2=Stephanie |date=2015-09-29 |title=Isis claims responsibility for death of Italian man in Bangladesh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/isis-claims-responsibility-for-shooting-dead-italian-in-bangladesh |access-date=2025-03-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

• September – Two Yemeni ICRC staff were killed after a gunman fired on their convoy heading to Sanaa. As a result, the ICRC temporarily paused travel in Yemen.{{Cite news |last=Meikle |first=James |date=2015-09-02 |title=Red Cross suspends movements in Yemen after two workers shot dead |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/two-red-cross-workers-shot-dead-in-yemen |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• December – A French-Tunisian ICRC staff member was abducted on her way to work in Sanaa. A video of her requesting assistance from French President François Hollande and the ICRC was posted online a few months later.{{Cite web |date=2016-05-06 |title=Exclusive: Video purportedly shows French woman kidnapped in Yemen |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20160506-yemen-france-kidnapping-video-hostage-hollande |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=France 24 |language=en}} She was released in October 2016.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-03 |title=Kidnapped Franco-Tunisian Red Cross worker freed in Yemen |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20161003-yemen-kidnapped-french-tunisian-red-cross-worker-nourane-houas-released |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=France 24 |language=en}}

• December – Four Iraqi aid workers and several civilians were killed by mortar fire during aid distribution in Mosul.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-car-bombs-mosul-gogjali-iraq-un-aid-workers-mortar-attack-a7490771.html Isis car bombs kill 23 people in recently liberated district of Mosul]. www.independent.co.uk. December 22, 2016

• A humanitarian convoy was attacked in Borno State, and a UNICEF worker was injured.{{Cite web |title=UNICEF statement on attack on humanitarian convoy in northeastern Nigeria |url=https://www.unicef.org/media/media_92039.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626002844/https://www.unicef.org/media/media_92039.html |archive-date=2020-06-26 |access-date=2019-09-11 |website=UNICEF}}

• September 19 – A convoy of 31 trucks was attacked in Urum al-Kubra while unloading humanitarian aid organized by the UN and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. According to the UN, Syrian government forces were responsible for the air strike, barrel bombs, and machine gun fire that killed 14 aid workers. The Syrian government denied involvement, blaming the attack on opposition forces.{{Cite news |last1=Cumming-Bruce |first1=Nick |last2=Barnard |first2=Anne |date=2017-03-01 |title=U.N. Investigators Say Syria Bombed Convoy and Did So Deliberately |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/world/middleeast/united-nations-war-crimes-syria.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240728071912/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/world/middleeast/united-nations-war-crimes-syria.html |archive-date=2024-07-28 |access-date=2025-02-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• February – Six Red Cross members were killed and two were kidnapped by suspected members of the Islamic State in the northern province of Jowzjan. The kidnapped members were later released.{{Cite news |date=2017-02-08 |title=Six Afghan ICRC workers 'killed by Islamic State' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38908312 |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Rasmussen |first=Sune Engel |date=2017-02-08 |title=Six Red Cross workers in Afghanistan killed in ambush |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/six-red-cross-workers-in-afghanistan-are-shot-dead-in-attack |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2017-02-08 |title=Six Red Cross workers killed while delivering aid in Afghanistan |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20170208-afghanistan-red-cross-workers-aid-islamic-state |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=France 24 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2017-10-09 |title=Afghan conflict: Red Cross forced to scale down |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41558305 |access-date=2025-03-02 |language=en-GB}}
• September 10 – A Spanish Red Cross physiotherapist, Lorena Enebral Perez, was killed by one of her patients in Mazar-e Sharif.{{Cite news |date=2017-09-11 |title=Red Cross physiotherapist killed by patient in Afghanistan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41224533 |access-date=2025-03-02 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2017-09-11 |title=Afghanistan: Physiotherapist who helps amputee patients shot and killed {{!}} International Committee of the Red Cross |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/afghanistan-physiotherapist-who-helps-amputee-patients-shot-and-killed |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}}

• January 17 – Six aid workers were killed, 8 seriously wounded, and numerous civilians were killed following a government airstrike on a refugee camp in Rann, Borno State.{{Cite web|title=Nigerian fighter jet strikes refugees, aid workers in Borno|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/africa/nigeria-airstrike-refugee-camp-aid-workers-killed/index.html|author1=Stephanie Busari |author2= Ibrahim Sawab|website=CNN|date=17 January 2017|access-date=2020-05-13}}{{Cite news |date=2017-01-17 |title=Nigeria air strike error kills dozens in refugee camp |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38654991 |access-date=2025-02-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

• October 14 – Six aid workers were killed and 13 seriously wounded by a vehicle-borne IED in Mogadishu.{{Cite news|first=Jason |last=Burke |date=2017-10-16|title=Mogadishu truck bomb: 500 casualties in Somalia's worst terrorist attack|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/15/truck-bomb-mogadishu-kills-people-somalia|access-date=2020-05-13|issn=0261-3077}}

• June 1 — Rouzan al-Najjar, a Palestinian Medical Relief Society medic, was shot and killed by the Israeli military while trying to reach injured protesters during the 2018—2019 Gaza border protests.{{Cite news |last1=Abuheweila |first1=Iyad |last2=Kershner |first2=Isabel |date=2018-06-02 |title=A Woman Dedicated to Saving Lives Loses Hers in Gaza Violence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/world/middleeast/gaza-paramedic-killed.html |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241209203837/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/world/middleeast/gaza-paramedic-killed.html |archive-date=2024-12-09 |access-date=2024-12-18 |work=New York Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-07-17 |title=Israeli soldiers deliberately and fatally shot Palestinian paramedic Rozan a-Najar in the Gaza Strip |url=https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20180718_paramedic_rozan_a_najar_killed_by_deliberate_fire |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241204062223/https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20180718_paramedic_rozan_a_najar_killed_by_deliberate_fire |archive-date=2024-12-04 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=B'Tselem |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-06-03 |title=Gaza unrest: United Nations condemns death of medic Razan al Najar |url=https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-unrest-united-nations-condemns-death-of-medic-razan-al-najar-11393593 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Sky News |language=en}}
• August 10 — Abed Abdullah Qotati, a volunteer paramedic with Nabd Al-Hayat, was shot and killed by the Israeli military along with the injured protester he was treating near the Gaza—Israel barrier.{{Cite web |title=Abdallah al-Qutati: Family and colleagues of third paramedic killed in Gaza speak out - Latest News & Developments - Medical Aid for Palestinians |url=https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/897-abdallah-al-qutati-family-and-colleagues-of-third-paramedic-killed-in-gaza-speak-out |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.map.org.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2018-08-11 |title='He was armed with bandages': Israeli forces kill second Palestinian paramedic during Great March of Return |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/bandages-palestinian-paramedic/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2019-06-11 |title=Palestinian paramedic shot by Israeli soldiers in Gaza succumbs to wounds |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-paramedic-shot-israeli-soldiers-gaza-succumbs-wounds |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}

• March 1 — Three humanitarian workers and eight security personnel were killed. Midwives Saifura Khorsa and Hauwa Liman, both working for ICRC, were kidnapped and murdered months later on September 16 and October 16 by Boko Haram.{{Cite news |date=2018-10-15 |title=Boko Haram faction kills second aid worker in Nigeria |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45871361 |access-date=2024-12-03 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2018-10-16 |title=Nigeria: Health worker Hauwa Mohammed Liman executed in captivity {{!}} International Committee of the Red Cross |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/nigeria-health-worker-hauwa-mohammed-liman-executed-captivity |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}} The nurse Alice Loksha, working for UNICEF, was also kidnapped and managed to escape in October 2024 after 6 years in captivity.{{Cite news |last1=Mandavilli |first1=Apoorva |last2=Maclean |first2=Ruth |date=2024-11-23 |title=She Faked a Religious Conversion to Escape Terrorists |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/world/africa/she-faked-a-religious-conversion-to-escape-terrorists.html |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=The New York Times}}

• June — A Lebanese ICRC staff member was shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Taiz. He was traveling in a marked vehicle to work at a prison.{{Cite web |last=Kaur |first=Harmeet |date=2018-04-21 |title=Red Cross employee killed in Yemen |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/middleeast/icrc-employee-killed-in-yemen/index.html |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite web |title='Gunshots to the heart': Red Cross aid worker killed in Yemen |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gunshots-heart-red-cross-aid-worker-killed-yemen |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}

• November 24 – United Nations Development Programme aid workers were attacked and one, Anil Raj, was killed in Kabul.[https://web.archive.org/web/20191128014725/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-citizen-from-california-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/2019/11/26/bd2f6bf2-106d-11ea-924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html] The Washington Post, "US Citizen from California Killed in Afghanistan attack, Nov 26, 2019,
• December 04 – Dr. Tetsu Nakamura and five other staff from Peace Japan Medical Services were shot and killed on their way to work in Jalalabad. Nakamura had agreed to travel with security guards after he was warned of a potential attack.{{Cite news |last1=Ghazi |first1=Zabihullah |last2=Mashal |first2=Mujib |last3=Abed |first3=Fahim |date=2019-12-04 |title='He Showed Us Life': Japanese Doctor Who Brought Water to Afghans Is Killed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/world/asia/afghanistan-tetsu-nakamura-dead.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191204232922/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/world/asia/afghanistan-tetsu-nakamura-dead.html |archive-date=2019-12-04 |access-date=2024-11-28 |work=The New York Times}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Attack that killed Japan doctor Nakamura in Afghanistan likely premeditated |url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/12/fc6ddfddaff7-japan-doctor-nakamura-likely-killed-in-premeditated-attack.html |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Kyodo News+}}{{Cite news |title=Local authorities told Nakamura of planned attack against him：The Asahi Shimbun |url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201912080032.html |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200809003820/http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201912080032.html |archive-date=2020-08-09 |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The Asahi Shimbun |language=en-us}}

• June — Mohammed Sobhi al-Judeili, a Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedic, died from his injuries a month after being shot in the head by an Israeli sniper during the 2018—2019 Gaza border protests.{{Cite news |last=Khoury |first=Jack |date=2019-06-11 |title=Gaza Medic Shot in the Head During Border Protests Succumbs to Wounds |url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2019-06-10/ty-article/gaza-medic-shot-in-the-head-during-border-protests-succumbs-to-wounds/0000017f-e7fa-dc7e-adff-f7ffdae40000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706153258/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2019-06-10/ty-article/gaza-medic-shot-in-the-head-during-border-protests-succumbs-to-wounds/0000017f-e7fa-dc7e-adff-f7ffdae40000 |archive-date=2022-07-06 |work=Haaretz}}

• May 12 – In the May 2020 Afghanistan attacks, gunmen targeted the maternity ward of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, run by MSF, killing at least 24 people – including mothers, young children, and an MSF midwife.{{Cite web|title=MSF pulls out of Kabul hospital after maternity ward attack|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/15/msf-pulls-out-of-kabul-hospital-after-maternity-ward-attack|access-date=2021-11-05|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}

• September 16 — In an attack on a World Vision convoy, Mathieu Musharhamina Chengangu was killed and another staff person was seriously injured. Two staff were kidnapped, but their kidnappers let them go due to pressure from locals.{{Cite web |title=World Vision staff victims of attack on humanitarian convoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |url=https://www.wvi.org/newsroom/congo/world-vision-staff-victims-attack-humanitarian-convoy-democratic-republic-congo |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.wvi.org |language=en}}

• July 19 – Five aid workers were executed by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP).{{Cite web |date=2020-07-28 |title=USCIRF Condemns Execution of Aid Workers by ISWAP Militants {{!}} USCIRF |url=https://www.uscirf.gov/release-statements/uscirf-condemns-execution-aid-workers-iswap-militants |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=www.uscirf.gov |language=en}}

• August 9 – In the Kouré shooting, six French ACTED aid workers, their Nigerian driver and a companion were killed by Islamic State – West Africa Province while visiting a giraffe reserve.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-16 |title=French troops kill top jihadist accused of killing aid workers, wanted by US |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20210916-french-troops-kill-top-jihadist-accused-of-killing-aid-workers-wanted-by-us |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=RFI |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-09-17 |title=IS group claims August killing of French aid workers in Niger |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200917-is-group-claims-august-killing-of-french-aid-workers-in-niger |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=France 24 |language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-08-11|title=Troops launch manhunt after Niger aid worker killings, France initiates terror probe|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200811-troops-launch-manhunt-after-niger-aid-worker-killings-france-initiates-terror-probe|access-date=2021-11-05|website=France 24|language=en}}

• Five aid workers of Action Against Hunger were abducted and later executed in Borno state by a group thought to be Islamic State – West Africa Province.{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200722-jihadists-northeastern-nigeria-execute-abducted-humanitarian-workers-islamic-state|title = Jihadists in northeast Nigeria execute five abducted humanitarian workers|date = 22 July 2020}}{{Cite news |date=2020-06-29 |title=Four aid workers say Islamist militants abducted them in northeast Nigeria |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/four-aid-workers-say-islamist-militants-abducted-them-in-northeast-nigeria-idUSKBN2402D2/ |work=Reuters}}

• February 18 – Syria Relief medic Ibrahim Saddo was killed in an airstrike in Idlib.{{Cite web |date=2020-02-19 |title=Syria Relief Healthworker Killed In Airstrike - Syrian Arab Republic {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-relief-healthworker-killed-airstrike |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Syria Relief Medic Killed In Airstrike Syria Relief |url=https://syriarelief.org.uk/articles/syria-relief-medic-killed-in-airstrike/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=syriarelief.org.uk}}
• February 19 – Two Oxfam workers, Wissam Hazim and Adel al-Halabi, were killed, and one volunteer was injured in an attack by an armed group in Daraa province.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-25 |title=Oxfam condemns the killing of two of its workers in attack in Syria |url=https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/oxfam-condemns-killing-two-its-workers-attack-syria |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Oxfam International |language=en}}

• In the Aden airport attack, at least three ICRC staff were killed and three more injured.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-30 |title=Yemen: 3 ICRC staff members killed in airport blast |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/yemen-2-icrc-staff-members-killed-1-unaccounted-after-airport-blast |access-date=2021-11-05 |website=International Committee of the Red Cross |language=en}}

• June 8 — Eleven HALO Trust workers were killed and 15 others wounded during an attack by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) in Baghlan.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-06-09 |title=Human Rights Commissioner Kofler on the attack against the demining organisation HALO Trust in Afghanistan |url=https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/human-rights-commissioner-halo-2465330 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=German Federal Foreign Office |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Why were my colleagues murdered? |url=https://www.halotrust.org/latest/halo-updates/news/why-were-my-colleagues-murdered/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=The HALO Trust |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Loyd |first=Anthony |date=2021-09-13 |title=As UK support dwindles, mine clearers in Afghanistan find help where they can |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/halo-trust-s-afghanistan-mine-clearers-get-back-to-work-despite-uk-funding-cuts-nfp0cn3d3 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}
• August — The United States Central Command attacked a crowded residential area in the August 2021 Kabul drone strike. The strike killed 10 members of an Afghan family, including Zemari Ahmadi, an aid worker for Nutrition & Education International who had applied for refugee status in the US. Initially, the US justified the strike, stating that Ahmadi was an ISIS-K militant planning to attack the airport. After an investigation by The New York Times, the US called the strike a "tragic mistake", stating that Ahmadi had not been a threat.{{Cite news |last1=Aikins |first1=Matthieu |last2=Koettl |first2=Christoph |last3=Hill |first3=Evan |last4=Schmitt |first4=Eric |last5=Tiefenthäler |first5=Ainara |last6=Jordan |first6=Drew |date=2021-09-10 |title=Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241227010935/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html |archive-date=2024-12-27 |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2021-09-15 |title=Afghan killed by drone praised by co-workers in US aid group |url=https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-strikes-islamic-state-group-b8bd9b0c805c610758bd1d3e20090c2c |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=AP News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Reardon |first=Sophie |date=2021-09-17 |title=Afghanistan drone strike the Pentagon previously described as "righteous" killed as many as 10 civilians, officials say |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-drone-strike-mistake-civilians-killed-pentagon/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}

• May 29 – Ethiopian Negasi Kidane, staff member of CISP (International Committee for the Development of Peoples) was killed by a stray bullet in Tigray.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-01 |title=Aid worker killed in Tigray as humanitarians are targeted |url=https://apnews.com/article/africa-a26a60eb13e573192e7e5a75a8abad47 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=AP News |language=en}}
• June – Three MSF staff were killed while looking for injured people in the Tigray region. According to investigators, they were shot by the Ethiopian military because a commander did not want MSF staff to work in an active combat zone.{{Cite web|title=Ethiopia: Three MSF staff killed in attack|url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/ethiopia-three-msf-staff-killed-attack|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Doctors Without Borders - USA|language=en}}{{Cite news |last1=Marks |first1=Simon |last2=Walsh |first2=Declan |date=2022-03-17 |title='Finish Them Off': Aid Workers, Found on Battlefield, Executed by Soldiers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-aid-workers-killed.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220319021651/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-aid-workers-killed.html |archive-date=2022-03-19 |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• December 7 – 23-year-old humanitarian worker Todisoa Andrinirina Fitiavana was killed in an attack while en route to oversee a food distribution by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Amboasary district of southern Madagascar.{{Cite news |date=2021-12-09 |title=A Madagascar, l'assassinat d'un travailleur humanitaire révèle la tragique situation du Sud |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/12/09/a-madagascar-l-assassinat-d-un-travailleur-humanitaire-revele-la-tragique-situation-du-sud_6105399_3212.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |language=fr}}

• February 2022 to May 2023 – Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele was injured while detained on charges of espionage. According to his family and Amnesty International, he was held in "inhumane conditions" equivalent to torture.{{Cite news |date=2023-01-10 |title=Olivier Vandecasteele: Belgian aid worker sentenced to 40 years in Iran |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64220942 |access-date=2024-12-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Iran: Tortured Belgian Aid Worker Forcibly Disappeared |url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actions/tortured-belgian-aid-worker-forcibly-disappeared |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=Amnesty |language=en}} He was later released in a prisoner exchange.{{Cite news |last=Biesemans |first=Bart |date=2023-05-27 |title=Freed Belgian aid worker lost weight, not sense of humour, during Iran ordeal |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/freed-belgian-aid-worker-lost-weight-not-sense-humour-during-iran-ordeal-2023-05-27/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241209010805/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/freed-belgian-aid-worker-lost-weight-not-sense-humour-during-iran-ordeal-2023-05-27/ |archive-date=2024-12-09 |work=Reuters |via=}}{{Cite news |date=2023-05-26 |title=Belgian Aid Worker and Iranian Diplomat Freed in Prisoner Swap |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/world/europe/iran-belgium-prisoner-swap.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231015150142/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/world/europe/iran-belgium-prisoner-swap.html |archive-date=2023-10-15 |work=New York Times}}

• June 1 – Two Red Cross workers were killed when armed men on motorcycles shot at their clearly marked vehicle.{{Cite news |date=2022-06-03 |title=Mali: Two Red Cross workers killed in attack |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/06/03/mali-two-red-cross-workers-killed-in-attack_5985555_4.html |access-date=2024-11-29 |language=en}}

• November 13 — A humanitarian convoy of eight vehicles was attacked by armed men in the Fizi territory. Fifteen members from the NGOs Congo Handicap (CH) and Action Communautaire pour le Développement Durable (ACDD), along with two humanitarian workers, were kidnapped, and three of the vehicles were set on fire. The two humanitarian workers were released later that day.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-14 |title=Sud-Kivu : l'attaque d'un convoi humanitaire à Fizi condamnée par les Nations Unies |trans-title=South Kivu: the attack on a humanitarian convoy in Fizi condemned by the United Nations |url=https://acp.cd/nation/sud-kivu-lattaque-dun-convoi-humanitaire-a-fizi-condamnee-par-les-nations-unies/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=ACP |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-16 |title=En RDC, les humanitaires victimes d'agressions et de rapts |trans-title=In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, humanitarian are victims of attacks and abductions |url=https://www.dw.com/fr/rdc-ocha-ch-acdd-province-du-sud-kivu-convoi-du-consortium-humanitaire/a-67414236 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=dw.com |language=fr}}

• October 11 – Israeli forces killed five IFRC members, including one Palestinian ambulance driver and four Palestinian paramedics, in Gaza in two separate instances.{{Cite web |date=November 10, 2023 |title=Five IFRC network members killed. Civilians and healthcare workers must be respected and protected |url=https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/five-ifrc-network-members-killed-civilians-and-healthcare-workers-must-be-respected |access-date=October 16, 2024 |website=www.ifrc.org}}
• October 7 to November 2 – 72 UNRWA personnel were killed in Gaza. According to UNRWA, this is "the highest number of UN civilian aid workers killed in a conflict in such a short time, in recent history."{{Cite web |date=November 3, 2023 |title=UNRWA Situation Report no. 21 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem |url=https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-no-21-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem |access-date=October 16, 2024 |website=www.unrwa.org}}

• October 7 – MDA (Magen David Adom) paramedic Amit Mann was a first responder and transported injured people from the Be’eri massacre to the local clinic. She was killed at the clinic by Palestinian gunmen.{{Cite web |title=How Magen David Adom saved Israeli lives on 7 October |url=https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencies/world/remembering-7-october-in-israel |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=British Red Cross |language=en}} MDA paramedic Aharon Haimov was killed by Palestinian gunmen while driving an ambulance responding to emergency calls from the battle of Ofakim.{{Cite web |title=Aharon Haimov, 25: Ambulance driver killed on way to treat victims. |url=https://afmda.org/news/haimov-obit/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=AFMDA |language=en-US}} Argentinian-Israeli and MDA volunteer Lior Rudaeff was killed during the Nir Yitzhak massacre. His body was kidnapped to Gaza by HAMAS.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-07 |title=Israel confirms Argentine thought to be hostage in Gaza was killed in October 7 attack |url=https://www.latintimes.com/israel-confirms-argentine-thought-hostage-gaza-was-killed-october-7-attack-553886 |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Latin Times |language=en}} German-Israeli United Hatzalah member and MDA volunteer Dolev Yehud was killed by HAMAS during the Nir Oz massacre in line of duty.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-20 |title=IFRC mourns the killing of two MDA volunteers confirmed dead {{!}} IFRC |url=https://www.ifrc.org/article/ifrc-mourns-killing-two-mda-volunteers-confirmed-dead |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=www.ifrc.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Leiche eines Deutsch-Israelis in Kibbuz Nir Oz identifiziert – DW – 03.06.2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/de/leiche-eines-deutsch-israelis-in-kibbuz-nir-oz-identifiziert/a-69251666 |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=dw.com |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=IDF identifies body of Israeli murdered by Gazan terrorists on October 7 |url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-idf-identifies-body-of-israeli-murdered-by-gaza-terrorists-on-october-7 |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=www.i24news.tv}}{{Cite web |title=In memory of Dolev Yehoud HY"D |url=https://israelrescue.org/mymitzvah/inmemoryofdolev/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=United Hatzalah of Israel |language=en-US}} United Hatzalah reported that four of their volunteers were injured, including an Arab doctor who was shot and used as a human shield before being rescued by the IDF.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-15 |title=Hamas terrorists used Arab doctor as a human shield |url=https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-768399 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-10-11 |title=IDF Rescues Muslim Doctor Held Hostage by Hamas |url=https://israelrescue.org/stories/muslim-doctor-shot-and-held-hostage-by-hamas-used-as-human-shield-rescued-by-idf/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=United Hatzalah |language=en-US}}

• March 4 – Two ICRC staff members were kidnapped and later released on March 20.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-20 |title=Mali: Two abducted staff members from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) released {{!}} ICRC |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/mali-two-abducted-staff-members-international-committee-red-cross-icrc-released |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}}

• November 6 — An aid worker was killed in Greater Pibor Administrative Area while responding to a suspected measles outbreak.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-11-10 |title=Humanitarian worker killed in Greater Pibor |url=https://www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/humanitarian-worker-killed-in-greater-pibor |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Radio Tamazuj |language=en-US}}
• November 11 — An employee of World Vision was killed in Warrap State.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-11-14 |title=Statement on Attacks on Aid Workers in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area and in Warrap State, South Sudan |url=https://ss.usembassy.gov/statement-on-attacks-on-aid-workers/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=U.S. Embassy in South Sudan |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-11-13 |title=Humanitarian killed along Kuajok-Wau Road |url=https://www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/aid-worker-killed-along-kuajok-wau-road |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Radio Tamazuj |language=en-US}}

• December 10 — Two ICRC staff were killed and 7 injured during an attack on a aid convoy in Khartoum.{{Cite news |date=2023-12-10 |title=Sudan war: Two people killed in attack on aid convoy in Sudan, says Red Cross |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67677528 |access-date=2024-12-03 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2023-12-10 |title=Sudan: ICRC deplores deliberate and deadly attack on its humanitarian convoy in Khartoum |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/sudan-icrc-deplores-deliberate-and-deadly-attack-its-humanitarian-convoy-khartoum |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}}

• January 6 — 47-year-old New Zealand volunteer Dr. Andrew Bagshaw and 28-year-old British aid worker Chris Parry were killed by gunshot wounds to the head and body in the Soledar region.{{Cite web |title=Ukrainian ambassador meets parents of 'hero' slain Kiwi aid worker |url=https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/25/ukrainian-ambassador-meets-parents-of-hero-slain-kiwi-aid-worker/ |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=1News |language=en}}
• February 2 — Pete Reed, the Ukraine country director for Global Outreach Doctors, was killed in a guided missile strike while helping to evacuate wounded civilians in Bakhmut.{{Cite news |last1=Gibbons-Neff |first1=Thomas |last2=Browne |first2=Malachy |date=2023-02-14 |title=Guided Missile Killed U.S. Aid Worker in Ukraine, Video Shows |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/world/europe/russian-attack-aid-worker-video.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

• September — A Save the Children staff member was held incommunicado by the Houthis. He died a month later while in detention.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-01 |title=Houthis under mounting international scrutiny over death of aid worker in detention |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2401581/middle-east |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Arab News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-10-26 |title=Save the Children calls for investigation after staff member dies in detention in Yemen |url=https://www.savethechildren.net/news/save-children-calls-investigation-after-staff-member-dies-detention-yemen#:~:text=Sana'a,%2026%20October%20-,9%20September%20while%20off%20duty |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Save the Children International |language=en}}

• June 30 – Two aid workers of Tearfund were killed and several injured in an attack on their aid convoy near Butembo.{{Cite web |title=DRC: millions flee violence in North Kivu |url=https://www.intersos.org/en/drc-millions-flee-violence-in-north-kivu/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Intersos |language=en-US}}{{cite web | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-aid-workers-killed-eastern-congo-convoy-attack-2024-07-01/ | title=Two aid workers killed in eastern Congo convoy attack | work=Reuters | date=July 2024 }}{{Cite web |title=Tearfund staff killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |url=https://www.tearfund.org/stories/2024/07/tearfund-staff-killed-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Tearfund |language=en}}
• September 19 – 36-year-old Dieudonné Barondezi, director of the local Caritas organization, was shot in the head by an armed militant group at a roadblock in Cholobero.{{Cite web |last=Esteves |first=Junno Arocho |title=Caritas 'shocked' by murder of director in Democratic Republic of Congo |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/caritas-shocked-murder-director-democratic-republic-congo |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=National Catholic Reporter |language=en}}

• January to June – Five aid workers were killed, ten were assaulted, and eleven were kidnapped in the War in Amhara.https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-weighs-suspending-relief-ethiopias-amhara-after-aid-workers-attacked-document-2024-10-08/ "UN weighs suspending relief to Ethiopia's Amhara after aid workers attacked, document shows" by Reade Levinson and Giulia Paravicini. October 8, 2024
• August 14 – Ethiopian Yared Melese, a staff member of ASDEPO (Action for Social Development and Environmental Protection Organization), was kidnapped for ransom and killed by a criminal armed group in Dawunt Woreda.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-14 |title=Statement on the Killing of a Humanitarian Worker in the Amhara Region {{!}} OCHA |url=https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/ethiopia/statement-killing-humanitarian-worker-amhara-region |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=www.unocha.org |language=en}}
• September 29 – Plan International member Teklemariam Tarekegn was killed in Debre Mewi, Amhara.{{Cite web |title=UN weighs suspending relief to Ethiopia's Amhara after aid workers attacked, document shows |url=https://www.cnbcafrica.com/wire/651409/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.cnbcafrica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Condolences to family of Plan staff member killed in Ethiopia |url=https://plan-international.org/news/2024/10/02/plan-staff-member-killed-in-ethiopia/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Plan International |language=en-GB}}

• January 28 – Two Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) paramedics attempted to rescue Hind Rajab, a five year old girl who was stranded in a car with her relatives' bodies after they were killed by an Israeli tank. On February 10, the paramedics were found dead in their ambulance close to the car containing the dead bodies of Rajab and her family.{{Cite news |date=2024-02-02 |title=A 6-year-old in Gaza City was calling to be rescued. Did anyone find her? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/02/gaza-city-rescue-palestine-red-crescent/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240216132251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/02/gaza-city-rescue-palestine-red-crescent/ |archive-date=2024-02-16 |newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title='I'm so scared, please come': Heartbreaking final moments of girl, 5, killed in Gaza |url=https://news.sky.com/story/im-so-scared-please-come-heartbreaking-final-moments-of-girl-5-killed-in-gaza-13229813 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Sky News |language=en}} According to a Forensic Architecture investigation, the Israeli military is responsible, but they have denied involvement.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-23 |title=Israeli tank fired at Hind Rajab family car from metres away: Investigation |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/23/israeli-tank-fired-at-hind-rajab-family-car-from-metres-away-investigation |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}
• April 1 – An Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers and their Palestinian driver after entering Gaza to coordinate the transfer of food to a warehouse. After approving the route of the convoy, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted three vehicles consecutively with three missiles. WCK accused the IDF of deliberately targeting the convoy "car by car", and the IDF claimed they had mistakenly targeted an aid worker they thought was a Palestinian gunman.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/01/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-killed-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html|title=Foreigners among World Central Kitchen staff killed in Israeli strike, Gaza authorities and aid group say|work=CNN|date=2 April 2024|accessdate=2 April 2024}}{{Cite news |title=Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car' |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/chef-jose-andres-says-israel-targeted-his-aid-workers-systematically-car-by-car-2024-04-03/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240403181005/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/chef-jose-andres-says-israel-targeted-his-aid-workers-systematically-car-by-car-2024-04-03/ |archive-date=2024-04-03 |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Reuters |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=2024-04-05 |title=Israel-Gaza: Inside IDF's detailed briefing on aid convoy attack |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68742572 |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=BBC |language=en-GB}}
• September 26 – Islam Hijazi, director of Heal Palestine, was killed by three Palestinian gunmen near a hospital in Khan Younis.{{Cite news |last=Al-Mughrabi |first=Nidal |date=2024-09-27 |title=Gunmen shoot and kill aid worker in Gaza, charity and family say |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gunmen-shoot-kill-aid-worker-gaza-charity-family-say-2024-09-27/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240927190157/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gunmen-shoot-kill-aid-worker-gaza-charity-family-say-2024-09-27/ |archive-date=2024-09-27 |work=Reuters}}{{Cite news |last=Halabi |first=Einav |date=2024-09-27 |title=Hamas terrorists murder Gazan mother after refusing to give charity funds |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry00kqzera |access-date=2024-11-30 |work=Ynetnews |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Admin |first=Heal |date=2024-11-04 |title=Honoring the Legacy of Islam Hijazy, Our Beloved Gaza Program Manager |url=https://www.healpalestine.org/honoring-the-legacy-of-islam-hijazy-our-beloved-gaza-program-manager/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=HEAL Palestine |language=en-US}}
• November 17 – UNRWA reported that 97 of 109 aid trucks entering Gaza were attacked and looted by Palestinian gunmen, causing injuries to staff, near Israeli military installations at the Kerem Shalom crossing.{{Cite web |last1=Humayun |first1=Hira |last2=Lockwood |first2=Pauline |date=2024-11-19 |title=Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of 'collapse of law and order' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/middleeast/aid-trucks-looted-gaza-unrwa-intl-latam/index.html |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-11-20 |title=How was a UN aid convoy robbed near Israeli military positions? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/20/how-was-a-major-un-aid-convoy-robbed-near-israeli-military-positions |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} Aid workers, locals, and others stated that Hamas was not involved in the increase in looting, instead attributing it to rival gangs and Israeli targeting of convoy security guards.{{Cite news |date=2024-11-18 |title=Gangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241124200409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/ |archive-date=2024-11-24 |newspaper=Washington Post}}
• November 30 – Israeli strikes killed multiple aid workers from organizations including Save the Children, World Central Kitchen, and Gaza Soup Kitchen{{Cite news |last=Alam |first=Anam |date=2024-12-01 |title=Save the Children aid worker killed by Israeli strike in Khan Younis |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/save-children-aid-worker-killed-israeli-strike-gaza |work=New Arab}}{{Cite web |title=Israel kills more aid workers in Gaza who feed Palestinians |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/1/israel-kills-gaza-aid-workers-from-world-central-kitchen-save-the-children |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}

• October 14 – An MSF team was attacked and robbed by armed men in the Segou region.{{Cite web |title=MSF condemns violence against our team in Mali {{!}} MSF |url=https://www.msf.org/msf-condemns-violence-against-our-team-mali |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=www.msf.org |language=en}}

• October – Two aid workers were captured and later executed by Boko Haram.{{Cite web |last=Haruna |first=Abdulkareem |date=2024-10-16 |title=Boko Haram Releases Shocking Video of Beheadings in North East Nigeria |url=https://humanglemedia.com/boko-haram-releases-shocking-video-of-beheadings-in-north-east-nigeria/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=HumAngle |language=en-US}}
• December 19 – Two aid workers were captured and later executed by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) near Zari town in Borno State.{{Cite web |last=Dahiru |first=Aliyu |date=2024-12-25 |title=ISWAP Claims Killing Of 2 'Aid Workers' in Northeastern Nigeria |url=https://humanglemedia.com/iswap-claims-killing-of-2-aid-workers-in-northeastern-nigeria/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=HumAngle |language=en-US}}

• April 4 – Turkish aid worker Abdurrahim Yörük and a local aid worker (both working for Verenel Derneği) were killed by Al-Shabaab. They were delivering food aid to a displaced persons camp in Mogadishu when a improvised explosive device (IED) killed them.{{Cite web |title=SOMALİ TEMSİLCİMİZ ABDÜRRAHİM YÖRÜK KARDEŞİMİZ ŞEHİT EDİLMİŞTİR. |url=https://verenel.org/tr/posts/somali-temsilcimiz-abdurrahim-yoruk-kardesimiz-sehit-edilmistir |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=verenel.org |date=5 April 2024 |language=tr}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-04 |title=Turkish aid worker killed in attack in Somalia |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/turkish-aid-worker-killed-in-attack-in-somalia-/7557831.html |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-06 |title=Prime Minister, Hamza expresses sorrow over the death of Turkish aid worker in Somalia |url=https://mogadishu24.com/prime-minister-hamza-expresses-sorrow-over-the-death-of-turkish-aid-worker-in-somalia/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Mogadishu24 |language=en-US |quote=Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre on Saturday expressed sorrow over the death of Turkish Aid Worker, Abdurrahim Yoruk who was killed in a terrorist attack in Mogadishu’s Garasbaley district a day ago.}}

• May 2 – Two ICRC drivers were shot and killed in South Darfur. Three ICRC aid workers suffered serious injuries but survived the incident.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-02 |title=Sudan: Two ICRC drivers killed by gunmen |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/document/sudan-two-icrc-drivers-killed-gunmen |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Network |first=Ayin |date=2024-05-22 |title=Dying to help, the targeting of aid workers in Sudan |url=https://3ayin.com/en/aid-2/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Ayin network - شبكة عاين |language=en-US}}
• May 23 – Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) volunteer Bashir Shuaib was killed.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-24 |title=Statement: IFRC mourns death of another Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer killed in the line of duty {{!}} IFRC |url=https://www.ifrc.org/article/statement-ifrc-mourns-death-another-sudanese-red-crescent-volunteer-killed-line-duty |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=www.ifrc.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=SudanTribune |date=2024-05-24 |title=Third Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer killed in two months |url=https://sudantribune.com/article286062/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Sudan Tribune |language=en-US}}
• April 27 – Three Sudanese World Food Programme staff members named Osman Ali, Siddig Mohammed, and Yousif Elzain were killed in a remote area in North Darfur.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-21 |title=Comment: 'Attacks on aid workers in Sudan must stop' {{!}} World Food Programme |url=https://www.wfp.org/stories/comment-attacks-aid-workers-sudan-must-stop |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=www.wfp.org |language=en}}
• June – Voluntary aid worker Abdul Rahman Al-Hadi Adlan was detained and later killed by Rapid Support Forces in Kabkabiya.{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-07-01 |title=Sudan: Aid worker tortured to death by RSF in North Darfur amid calls for investigation |url=https://www.cfjustice.org/sudan-aid-worker-tortured-to-death-by-rsf-in-north-darfur-amid-calls-for-investigation/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Committee for Justice |language=en-US}}
• June 11 – Eight aid workers were killed in North Dafur.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-29 |title=Sudan's Genocide Deepens Famine |url=https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/sudans-genocide-deepens-famine |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Think Global Health |language=en}}
• July 1 – Three UN World Food Programme (WFP) trucks on their way to Central Darfur were attacked and looted by armed men.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-01 |title=Sudan: UN food convoy attacked, supplies looted amid worsening crisis {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151656 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=news.un.org |language=en}}
• December 19 – Three members of the World Food Programme were killed in an airstrike that hit their field office in Yabus, Blue Nile state.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-20 |title=Sudan's El Fasher siege: UN humanitarians killed as refugee crisis intensifies {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158451 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=news.un.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=SudanTribune |title=WFP staff killed in Sudan airstrike, UN demands investigation - Sudan Tribune |url=https://sudantribune.com/article294865/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250117124122/https://sudantribune.com/article294865/ |archive-date=2025-01-17 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=sudantribune.com |date=20 December 2024 |language=en-US}}
• January to October – The deaths of 25 aid workers have been recorded in the Sudanese civil war (2023–present).{{Cite web |date=2024-11-05 |title=Aid Worker Security Database Signal Alert: National aid workers facing increased fatal attacks in Sudan (29 October 2024) [EN/AR] - Sudan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/aid-worker-security-database-signal-alert-national-aid-workers-facing-increased-fatal-attacks-sudan-29-october-2024-enar |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}Insecurity Insight. 2025. 25 December 2024-07 January 2025. Violence against or obstruction of health care in Sudan. Switzerland: Insecurity Insight. bit.ly/25Dec-07Jan2024SDNHealth

• December 1 – Three local workers from Shafak and IYD were killed near Aleppo.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-06 |title=Local aid workers killed, millions in need of humanitarian assistance as renewed violence grips northwest Syria - CARE Canada |url=https://care.ca/2024/12/04/local-aid-workers-killed-millions-need-humanitarian-assistance-as-renewed-violence-grips-northwest-syria/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=care.ca |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2024-12-06 |title=Syria: Local aid workers killed amid renewed spike in violence - Syrian Arab Republic {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-local-aid-workers-killed-amid-renewed-spike-violence |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}

• February 1 – Two HEKS/EPER workers were killed and 4 injured when their vehicle was attacked in Beryslav, Khersonska Oblast.{{Cite web |title=Death of two HEKS/EPER staff in Ukraine caused by drone attacks {{!}} HEKS |url=https://en.heks.ch/medien/death-two-hekseper-staff-ukraine-caused-drone-attacks |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=en.heks.ch |language=en}}
• September 12 – Three ICRC members were killed at an aid distribution site in Viroliubivka.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-12 |title=Ukraine: 3 ICRC staff killed after shelling hits aid distribution site in Donetsk region {{!}} International Committee of the Red Cross |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/news-release/ukraine-3-icrc-staff-killed-after-shelling-hits-aid-distribution-site-donetsk |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.icrc.org |language=en}}
• December 2023 to November 2024 – 378 attacks and 65 deaths have been recorded during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=1000 days of war in Ukraine: resilience in health response, recovery and reform efforts despite attacks and ongoing challenges |url=https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/18-11-2024-1000-days-of-war-in-ukraine--resilience-in-health-response--recovery-and-reform-efforts-despite-attacks-and-ongoing-challenges |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-11-15 |title=Ukraine: Partners emergency response to attacks - Update #16 as of 15 November 2024 as reported to the Health Cluster - Ukraine {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/map/ukraine/ukraine-partners-emergency-response-attacks-update-16-15-november-2024-reported-health-cluster |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=THE RELENTLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST AID WORKERS MUST STOP {{!}} United Nations in Ukraine |url=https://ukraine.un.org/en/259512-relentless-violence-against-aid-workers-must-stop |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=ukraine.un.org |language=en}}

• June – OHCHR reported that over 60 Yemeni workers from the UN and other NGOs were arrested by the Houthis. They joined at least four UN workers who have been detained since 2021 and 2023. The Houthis claimed to have arrested members of an "American-Israeli spy network" and released videos of ten Yemeni people confessing to being spies. OHCHR said that one of the videos depicted a staff member and that the confession was forced.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-13 |title=Yemen's Houthis seized UN rights office in Sanaa, UN official says |url=https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-sanaa-un-crackdown-a1dc7c63b4ea61a8ab6fd97230a2739e |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=AP News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-04 |title=Huthi authorities must immediately release arbitrarily detained staff from UN and civil society organizations |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/yemen-huthi-authorities-must-immediately-release-arbitrarily-detained-staff-from-un-and-civil-society-organizations/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-07 |title=Yemen's Houthi rebels detain 11 UN staffers as well as aid workers in sudden crackdown |url=https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-rebels-un-detentions-israel-hamas-war-966dce0c3d7cd96679b3c3562ee57068 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=AP News |language=en}}

• January – Thirty-four humanitarian workers were arrested by the Taliban.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-18 |title=Afghanistan: Humanitarian Access Snapshot (January 2025) {{!}} OCHA |url=https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-access-snapshot-january-2025 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.unocha.org |publisher=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2025-02-19 |title=Taliban Arrests 34 Humanitarian Workers & Suspends 56 Aid Projects |url=https://www.afintl.com/en/202502191526 |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.afintl.com |language=en}}

• February 5 – Three local HEKS/EPER employees were attacked and killed in the Rutshuru Territory of North Kivu. As a result, the Swiss aid organization temporarily suspended all activities in the region.{{Cite web |title=Three HEKS/EPER employees killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{!}} HEKS |url=https://en.heks.ch/medien/three-hekseper-employees-killed-democratic-republic-congo |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=en.heks.ch |language=en}}
• February 20 – 49-year-old Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) member Jerry Muhindo Kavali was shot during an attack on his organization's base in Masisi. He died two days later in a hospital in Goma.{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Brussels |title=Doctors Without Borders member shot to death in Congo |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/1456242/doctors-without-borders-member-shot-to-death-in-congo |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.brusselstimes.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=MSF mourns colleague killed in DR Congo {{!}} Doctors Without Borders - USA |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-mourns-colleague-killed-dr-congo |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=www.doctorswithoutborders.org |language=en}}

• January – WFP reported that the Israeli military fired at least 16 bullets at their aid convoy. The attack was condemned by Cindy McCain on X.{{Cite news |date=2025-01-06 |title=World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on its Gaza convoy |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-food-programme-condemns-israeli-attack-its-convoy-gaza-2025-01-06/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250125063239/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-food-programme-condemns-israeli-attack-its-convoy-gaza-2025-01-06/ |archive-date=2025-01-25 |work=Reuters}}{{Cite news |date=2025-01-06 |title=World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on its Gaza convoy |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/world-food-programme-condemns-israeli-attack-its-gaza-convoy |work=New Arab}}{{Cite web |date=2025-01-06 |title=Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158746 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=UN News |language=en}}
• March 19 – The UN reported that the Israeli military attacked their compound in Deir al-Balah, killing a Bulgarian staff member and seriously injuring six other staff.{{Cite news |last=Fassihi |first=Farnaz |date=2025-03-25 |title=U.N. to Pull International Workers From Gaza Amid Israeli Strikes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/world/middleeast/un-workers-gaza-israel.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250325011538/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/world/middleeast/un-workers-gaza-israel.html |archive-date=2025-03-25 |access-date=2025-03-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-25 |title=UN to downsize international staff in Gaza due to Israeli attacks |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/un-to-downsize-international-staff-in-gaza-due-to-israeli-attacks |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} The staff were members of the United Nations Mine Action Service.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-19 |title=Israel launches ground offensive in Gaza after killing UN worker |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bombards-un-headquarters-gaza-one-killed |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}} The UN called for an independent investigation and removed 30% of their international staff from Gaza. The Israeli military denied responsibility for the attack.
• March 27 – World Central Kitchen reported that the Israeli military attacked one of its food distribution programs during meal time. The attack killed one of its volunteers and injured six other people.{{Cite news |date=2025-03-27 |title=World Central Kitchen says Israeli strike killed Gaza volunteer |url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/5218804-world-central-kitchen-says-israeli-strike-killed-gaza-volunteer/ |work=The Hill}}
• March 30 – The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that 9 of their staff were missing after their ambulances were attacked by the Israeli military in Rafah.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-30 |title=Palestine Red Crescent says 14 bodies found in search for missing Gaza crew |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/30/palestine-red-crescent-says-missing-gaza-crew-either-dead-or-detained |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} The bodies of 8 of the PRCS staff were later recovered in a mass grave along with their ambulances and the bodies of 6 other emergency responders and an UNRWA worker.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-31 |title=Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says |url=https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7 |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=AP News |language=en}} One PRCS staff person was missing from the grave.{{Cite news |last= |date=2025-03-31 |title=Red Cross federation 'outraged' at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/gaza-red-cross-red-crescent-medic-deaths-response-israel-hamas-palestine |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The Israeli military said they had targeted Hamas fighters.{{Cite news |last=Tondo |first=Lorenzo |date=2025-03-29 |title=Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/israel-admits-firing-at-ambulances-in-gaza-after-palestinians-say-rescuers-missing-in-rafah |access-date=2025-03-30 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-03-27 |title=Aid workers reported killed and missing in Gaza as Israeli blockade nears one month |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/middleeast/aid-workers-killed-missing-gaza-israel-intl-latam/index.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=CNN |language=en}} According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Rafah paramedic massacre was the deadliest attack on their workers since 2017.

• January – A 73-year-old Austrian aid worker named Eva Gretzmacher was kidnapped by gunmen in Agadez city. Gretzmacher lived in the city for more than 20 years and worked with various organizations.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-01-13 |title=An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in Niger's Agadez city, authorities say |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/12/africa/austrian-kidnapped-niger-intl-latam/index.html |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=CNN |language=en}}

• January 10 – An MSF ambulance was attacked while transporting a woman in labor to a hospital. One female caretaker was shot and died.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-27 |title=Attacks on Health Care in Sudan, 08-21 January 2025 - Sudan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/attacks-health-care-sudan-08-21-january-2025 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=MSF condemns a despicable attack on its ambulance in El Fasher, killing one passenger |url=https://msf.lu/en/articles/msf-condamne-lattaque-dune-ambulance-el-fasher-au-cours-de-laquelle-un-passager-ete-tue |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Association d'aide médicale humanitaire — Médecins Sans Frontières Luxembourg |language=en}}
• February 1 – Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) volunteer Iman Abbas was killed by artillery shelling at the Sabreen open market in Omdurman.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-10 |title=STATEMENT: IFRC mourns the killing of Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer {{!}} IFRC |url=https://www.ifrc.org/article/statement-ifrc-mourns-killing-sudanese-red-crescent-volunteer |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=www.ifrc.org |language=en}}
• February 11 to 14 – Two aid workers were killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Zamzam Refugee Camp.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-17 |title=Violence turns Sudan's North Darfur into "a death trap" for over 1 million people – INGO Forum |url=https://www.savethechildren.net/news/violence-turns-sudans-north-darfur-death-trap-over-1-million-people-ingo-forum |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Save the Children International |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2025-02-18 |title=Survivors recount horrific RSF attack on famine-hit Sudan camp |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250218-survivors-recount-horrific-rsf-attack-on-famine-hit-sudan-camp |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=France 24 |language=en}}

• January – Seven UN workers have been detained after the US president reclassified the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organizations. As a consequence of the detainment of their workers, the UN has suspended its movements into and within Houthi-held areas.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2025-01-25 |title=UN says seven staff detained in Houthi-controlled Yemen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/un-says-seven-staff-detained-in-houthi-controlled-yemen |access-date=2025-01-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Gritten |first=David |date=2025-01-23 |title=Trump re-designates Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organisation |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g92ny391go |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}} On February 10, one member of the UN World Food Programme died in prison.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-11 |title=UN announces death in Yemeni prison of aid worker detained by Houthis |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/un-announces-death-in-yemeni-prison-of-aid-worker-detained-by-houthis/7970653.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2025-02-11 |title=Yemen: WFP says worker died in detention in Houthi-held area |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7g474px2do |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}

• (2025) Insecurity Insight: "The Sudan Crisis: How Over a Year of Violence and Humanitarian Access Restrictions Have Produced Famine Conditions" Switzerland: Insecurity Insight. bit.ly/SDNFoodJan2025

• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
• Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
• Monument to Canadian Aid Workers
• World Humanitarian Day

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101007000103/http://cahr.info/index_files/page0029.htm IRC Suspends Activity in Afghanistan after the Murder of Four Employees] Central Asia Health Review. Aug. 14, 2008
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050417071043/http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/%2BNwwBmek8yLCwwwwqwwwwwwwhFqo20I0E2gltFqoGn5nwGqrAFqo20I0E2glcFqrwBwMx1wDzmxwwwwwww/opendoc.pdf UNHCR Report on Atambua killings]
• [https://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/special/refugees4.html Extract from Human Rights Watch report Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons]
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• [http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=advice/security Security Advice for Aid Workers (Aid Workers Network)]
• [http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=node/809 ECHO Generic Security Guide for Humanitarian Organisations]
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060811060411/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/co_publi_pdf/2005/2005-no_relief-full_text.pdf Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Small Arms Survey]
• [http://translationexcellence.com/first-international-resolution-to-protect-interpreters-from-threats-kidnapping-injury-death-and-imprisonment/ Protect Interpreters from Threats, Kidnapping, Injury, Death and Imprisonment]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180810050013/http://cwcentre.org/ Christine Witcutt Memorial Fund]
• [http://www.redr.org.uk RedR UK – an international NGO that provides recruitment, training and support services for humanitarian professionals across the world]
• [http://www.centreforsafety.org Centre for Safety and Development]
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228220246/http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?ID=2743 HPG No Relief]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101214081952/http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/alnap-sohs-final.pdf ALNAP The State of the Humanitarian System]

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