Doctors Without Borders denies IDF accusation that slain employee was a terror operative

Fadi al-Wadiya, a Doctors Without Borders member who the IDF says was a PIJ rocket expert, killed in a strike in Gaza City, June 25, 2024. (Courtesy of Doctors Without Borders on X)
Fadi al-Wadiya, a Doctors Without Borders member who the IDF says was a PIJ rocket expert, killed in a strike in Gaza City, June 25, 2024. (Courtesy of Doctors Without Borders on X)

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders says it has no indication that one of its employees, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, was a terror operative as claimed by the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel said yesterday that it killed Fadi al-Wadiya, who it said was a “significant operative” in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. It said Al-Wadiya was involved in the group’s rocket arsenal, as well as in its electronics and chemistry know-how.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French name Médecins Sans Frontières, says Israel has not provided evidence about its claim.

It says al-Wadiya was a medic and physiotherapist who worked for the group between 2018 and 2022, having resumed work with the charity during the war. It says he was killed on his bicycle while riding to work.

The group says he is the sixth of its employees to be killed in Gaza since October 7.

“There is no justification for this; it is unacceptable. Healthcare workers must be protected and should not be targeted,” the group argues in a statement.

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