Doctor By Day, Terrorist By Night, Slain Gazan “Doctors Without Borders” Staff Was Islamic Jihad Rocket Maker- IDF
Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket expert, named by Doctors Without Borders as a staffer, was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza City on Tuesday, the military said.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, reported on Tuesday morning that Fadi al-Wadiya was one of its staffers.
The organization said in a post on X that al-Wadiya was killed along with five other people, among them three children, while riding his bicycle to the MSF clinic where he worked.
“Killing a healthcare worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking; it’s cynical and abhorrent,” Caroline Seguin, the organization’s local operations manager, was quoted saying in a statement.
The Israel Defense Forces later in the day confirmed that it had killed al-Wadiya, saying that he was an Islamic Jihad operative involved in developing the terror group’s missiles.
Al-Wadiya was involved in “the development and advancement of the organization’s missile array,” the military said in a statement.
The IDF said he was also a “source of knowledge” within the Islamic Jihad, in the fields of electronics and chemistry.
It published footage of the drone strike in Gaza City.
After MSF on Wednesday issued a denial that al-Wadiya had been a terror operative, the IDF released images showing al-Wadiya wearing a PIJ uniform.
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