Lester Golden
2 min readOct 10, 2024

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He was a PIJ rocket maker:

IDF: Slain Gazan named as Doctors Without Borders staffer was Islamic Jihad rocket maker

Military says Fadi al-Wadiya was electronics and chemistry expert in terror group; MSF issues a denial, leading IDF to release photo of him in PIJ uniform

By Emanuel Fabian Follow

26 June 2024, 10:29 am

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Left: Fadi al-Wadiya, a Doctors Without Borders member who the IDF says was a PIJ rocket expert, who was killed in a strike in Gaza City, June 25, 2024. (Courtesy of Doctors Without Borders on X); Right: An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)

Left: Fadi al-Wadiya, a Doctors Without Borders member who the IDF says was a PIJ rocket expert, who was killed in a strike in Gaza City, June 25, 2024. (Courtesy of Doctors Without Borders on X); Right: An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)

A 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.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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