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Attacks on aid workers are outrageous. This violence needs more attention and it has to stop | Andrew Colvin and Jagan Chapagain Humanitarian workers can’t be brave at any cost. Australia’s new declaration will help protect them The phone call every humanitarian worker’s family dreads came to Zomi Frankcom’s family in April 2024. An Australian, Frankcom was in Gaza with World Central Kitchen, feeding people in the middle of a catastrophe. She and six of her colleagues were killed in an instant, their vehicles targeted in what Israel’s government later described as a grave mistake. Showing immense strength, Frankcom’s family felt strongly that her death must lead to the protection of others. Humanitarians workers, they said, “can’t be brave at any cost”. Zomi Frankcom’s death was outrageous and unacceptable. But, shockingly, it was no anomaly. Rather, it is a part of a brutal global trend. In conflicts from Ukraine to Sudan, and even during disputes where there is no formal conflict, the sense is that lives of humanitarian workers are expendable. The consequences for taking them are not significant enough to stop. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/attacks-on-aid-workers-are-outrageous-this-violence-needs-more-attention-and-it-has-to-stop?CMP=aus_bsky