Sentence examples for assaults on aid from inspiring English sources

In the same period, one in every six convoys carrying humanitarian aid to the refugee camps was attacked; assaults on aid workers more than doubled compared with a year ago.

Statistics compiled by care International showed that eleven aid workers were murdered in four incidents during a three-week period ending early last month, and the rate of physical assaults on aid workers in Afghanistan more than doubled in January and February compared with the same period in the previous year.

There have now been more than 100 cases of assaults on aid workers in the past year since the East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia and many fled or were driven from their homes in the militia-led violence that ensued.

The "sustained assault" on aid work in Syria and difficulties of getting help to millions of people who need it was the result of a "complete failure of political will to resolve the crisis", Fraser said.

The deliberate assault on aid workers is a chilling new dimension to the crisis in Somalia that has unfolded over the past 17 years but has grown increasingly violent as outside forces, including the United States military, have turned a civil war into a more international conflict.

Already the Arab League is talking of supporting Turkey in any legal action against the Israeli assault on the aid convoy to Gaza.

The assault on the aid convoy, in which 10 Turks were killed, ruptured relations between Turkey and Israel, which previously enjoyed close diplomatic and military ties.

The angry exchanges with Russia at the United Nations this week were prompted by the American conclusion that Russian aircraft appeared to have been responsible for the assault on the aid convoy.

His regime has avoided direct assaults on the Islamic State, occasionally aided it on the battlefield and released known militants from prison. .

NGO staff were assaulted and raped during an attack on aid workers in South Sudan in August that left at least one person dead.

Turkey downgraded relations after Israel rejected a sound, American-mediated deal to close the book on Israel's ill-fated assault on a Gaza aid flotilla that killed eight Turks and one Turkish-American.