As the Secretary-General noted, humanitarian workers were targeted “not in spite of being humanitarian workersbut precisely because of that fact.” The Executive Director further pointed out that United Nations staff members “give everything they've got to save people living in the worst circumstances on earth.
وكما لاحظ الأمين العام فإن العاملين في الحقل الإنساني مستهدفون "لا بالرغم من أنهم عاملون في الحقل الإنساني بل بالذات لأنهم عاملون بهذه الصفة".