UNITED NATIONS: Aid workers rushing to save lives worldwide are increasingly becoming targets for attack, in a worrying development for non-government organizations (NGOs) trying to ease suffering in hostile war zones.

From South Sudan, where roaming militias killed six aid workers this month—three of them in an ambush—to Gaza, where 11 UN staff were killed in attacks on UN-run shelters, relief workers are living dangerously.

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