The number of aid workers killed in Gaza since October 7 includes 88 members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), according to a joint statement by UN humanitarian chiefs.

This is the largest UN death toll ever recorded in a single conflict, the document emphasizes.

The statement was signed by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths; director-general of the World Health Organization, (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell; and several others. They again called to release the hostages taken by Hamas and to establish a ceasefire in Gaza.

Thirty days have passed since the start of hostilities in Gaza, but everything has a limit, and this must be stopped, the statement adds, in part.