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IDF releases images showing Doctors Without Borders staffer in Islamic Jihad uniform

By Emanuel Fabian 26 June 2024, 10:27 pm 86 Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing Doctors Without Borders staffer Fadi al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)
An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing Doctors Without Borders staffer Fadi al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)

The IDF releases images showing Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket expert Fadi al-Wadiya wearing the terror group’s uniform, after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, named him as a staffer but denied he was a terror operative.

Al-Wadiya was killed in a drone strike in Gaza City yesterday.

The organization then said in a post on X that al-Wadiya was killed while riding his bicycle to the MSF clinic where he worked.

The IDF said he was a prominent member of Islamic Jihad, involved in developing missiles for the terror group, as well as being an electronics and chemistry expert.

Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, says al-Wadiya worked for Islamic Jihad’s rocket manufacturing unit for more than 15 years.

He attaches three images showing al-Wadiya in Islamic Jihad uniform.

Adraee adds that in 2018, the same year that al-Wadiya joined Doctors Without Borders, the latter tried to leave Gaza for Iran to undergo training there with two other terror operatives.

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