From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
IDF says it killed Islamic Jihad operative who Doctors Without Borders named as a staffer
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative involved in developing the terror group’s missiles was killed in an airstrike earlier today, the military says.
Fadi Jihad Muhammad al-Wadiya was targeted in a drone strike in Gaza City, the IDF says.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, reported this morning that al-Wadiya was one of its staffers. The organization said in a post on X that al-Wadiya was killed along with 5 other people, among them three children, while riding his bicycle to the MSF clinic where he worked.
Al-Wadiya was involved in “the development and advancement of the organization’s missile array,” the military says.
The IDF says he was also a “source of knowledge” within the Islamic Jihad, in the fields of electronics and chemistry.
It publishes footage of the strike.
כלי-טיס של חיל-האוויר, בהכוונת פיקוד הדרום ואמ"ן, תקף מוקדם יותר היום במרחב העיר עזה וחיסל את המחבל פאדי ג׳האד מחמד אלואדיה, אשר שימש כפעיל בארגון הטרור גא״פ ועסק בפיתוח וקידום מערך הטילים של הארגון.
כמו כן, המחבל היווה מוקד ידע ייחודי בארגון בתחומי האלקטרוניקה והכימיה. pic.twitter.com/kidkxFRNVQ— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) June 25, 2024
