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- The UN aid agency that supports Palestinians in Gaza says 72 of its aid workers have been killed.
- The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNWRA, employs 13,000 people in Gaza.
- In all of last year, 76 UN aid workers were killed in attacks around the world.
The bombardment of the Gaza Strip has exacted a deadly toll on aid workers there, killing at least 72 employees of the United Nations relief agency since the war began on October 7.
"To date, 72 UNRWA colleagues have been killed in Gaza since the war began, often with their families," Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said in a statement on Thursday.