More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed worldwide over the past three years, nearly triple the death count of the previous three-year period, the UN said on April 8, decrying the slayings as "a symptom of a lawless, bellicose, selfish and violent world.”

From October 2023 to August 2025, Israeli attacks killed 560 aid workers in Palestine’s Gaza alone, including 346 UN staff and 51 members of the Palestinian Red Crescent. Many were killed while travelling in clearly marked convoys and on missions coordinated with authorities.

Other major hotspots include Sudan, South Sudan, Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher. “This is not an accidental escalation — it is the collapse of protection,” Fletcher said.

At least 326 aid workers were killed across 21 countries in 2025. The year before, 2024, saw a record 383 deaths, with workers killed while delivering food, water, shelter and medicine. Between 2020...

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Sitting in her makeshift tent, 21-year-old Palestinian student Nagham Abu Ghali scrolls through scholarship documents that could have taken her to study medicine in Türkiye.

Instead, two years after receiving her acceptance letter, she remains stranded in Palestine’s Gaza due to Israel’s ongoing blockade.
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While global attention focused on Iran, Israeli attacks hit Palestine’s Gaza on 36 of the 40 days since February 28, killing over 100 Palestinians.

Israel kept key crossings into and out of the besieged enclave shut, only allowing 8% of Gaza’s much-needed medical evacuations to proceed and permitting just 20% of the aid trucks it said it would grant access to in the ceasefire deal to enter, worsening conditions even further.
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A series of Israeli air strikes targeted the city of Nabatieh and the towns of Kfarjouz and Kfar Roummane in southern Lebanon on April 10. Footage shows heavy fire and smoke rising over neighbourhoods in Nabatieh as Israeli forces carried out what was described by local sources as a heavy fire belt around the area.
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From the war in Iran to teens storming shops in Clapham, this week’s Feed-back takes you through the viral trends and real consequences behind the headlines.
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“He always used to tell me, ‘I know you’re strong, you’re brave, you’re not like that (fearful).’”

The daughter of Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah once spoke of her dream of becoming a journalist like her father. Two years later, he was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his car in Gaza City on April 8.
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#Islamabad has deployed more than 10,000 military and police personnel ahead of Saturday’s peace talks, as #US and Iranian delegations arrive in the Pakistani capital. ⁠
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Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder reports on the tightened security measures.
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A senior Iranian delegation, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, has arrived in #Islamabad for talks with #US officials.⁠
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Former US ambassador Henry S. Ensher said the high-level delegations being sent by the US and Iran to Islamabad significantly raise the stakes, warning the situation is “really high risk”.⁠
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Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at northern #Israel, damaging a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church in Nahariya. The attack comes after weeks of heavy Israeli bombardment across #Lebanon.
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US President Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will reopen ‘fairly soon’, as #US and Iranian officials arrive in #Islamabad for peace talks to end six weeks of war.
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Six Palestinians have been killed, and a number have been wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to sources at al-Awda Hospital and Al-Aqsa Hospital.⁠
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Smotrich:
We will annex more land from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria to expand the State of Israel. The Jewish people returned to their land after thousands of years, and we will not give up this land. We will rapidly expand settlements in the West Bank to impose full control and eliminate the Palestinian state.
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Diplomatic escalation: Israel expelled Spanish representatives after Madrid criticized the war in Gaza and Lebanon and refused to support an attack on Iran. Netanyahu accused Spain of hostility toward Israel.
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⭕Ministry of Health: The death toll in Gaza has risen to 72,328 since the start of the Israeli genocide.
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🔴 Turkish President Erdoğan said Israel betrayed Lebanon and killed 254 people on the ceasefire day, adding that Netanyahu is a criminal killing civilians and that following Hitler’s path leads to self-destruction.
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Heavy airstrikes on the town of Rafta in southern Lebanon.
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🔴White House official: The United States, Iran, and Pakistan hold a face-to-face trilateral meeting.
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Protesters in the Italian capital raised a shroud bearing the names of 21,000 children killed by Israeli forces during the genocide, in a demonstration condemning the ongoing massacres in Gaza.
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An Egyptian doctor performs a medical miracle, restoring hope and life to the face of a Palestinian girl from Gaza after a severe injury sustained during the recent war.
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The child Abdullah Abu Hasira (3 years old), from Gaza, is facing a life-threatening condition due to chronic respiratory distress and air accumulation around the lungs. Amid the lack of treatment, his father is urgently appealing for his transfer abroad to receive the necessary medical care before it is too late.
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