The recent news that 15 people, eight of them
members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, were killed in Gaza once again underlines how perilous the job of a humanitarian aid worker can be. An inherently dangerous and stressful profession, aid work takes humanitarians into some of the most threatening and unpredictable conflict zones in the world. And the risks are many.
So, what makes the aid sector such an unsafe environment to work in? Click through the following gallery and learn of the
everyday risks faced by humanitarian aid workers.