Tel Aviv [Israel], The Israel Defense Forces released photographs of Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket specialist Fadi al-Wadiya wearing the terrorist group's uniform after Doctors Without Borders confirmed he was a staff member but denied that he was a terrorist. Wadiya was killed in an airstrike in northern Gaza on Tuesday while he was cycling to work.
"A physiotherapist by day and a jihadist saboteur by night," Arab IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday night.
Adraee said Wadiya had worked for Islamic Jihad for 15 years helping to make rockets, adding that he was the terrorist group's "expert in the fields of electronics and chemistry."
Adraee also revealed that the same year Wadiya joined Doctors Without Borders (MSF), he "tried to leave the Gaza Strip for Iran, accompanied by two other terrorists, to participate in terrorist training there."
Adraee added: "No matter how much Doctors Without Borders tries to regard Al-Wadiya as an innocent healer who saved lives, he is a dangerous saboteur who is once again reminiscent of the way terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip exploit terrorist organizations. aid agencies, describing them as a 'human shield.'"
The Geneva-based medical aid organization denied that Wadiya was a terrorist and condemned the airstrike.
Terrorist groups penetrated Gaza's medical sector
According to the military, eighty-five percent of Gaza's hospitals have been used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for terrorist purposes.
As the Israel Press Service reported in October, Hamas made extensive use of Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest medical center. Hamas launched rockets from its compound, hid hostages in the bowels of the building, tortured collaborators and dug tunnels connecting Shifa with nearby sites. Israel also released a recording of a phone call confirming that Hamas also stores at least half a million liters of fuel beneath the compound.
In March, Israeli forces attacked Shifa after learning that Hamas had established a small government administration center there. The day Israeli forces entered the Shifa compound, Hamas was about to pay salaries to hundreds of its civil and military officials. Soldiers arrested more than 800 terrorists.
In December, Ahmed Kahlot, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, confirmed to Israeli interrogators that he and other staff members were Hamas agents. During interrogation, Kahlot described how Hamas used hospitals and ambulances to hide its agents, launch military activities, transport members of terrorist squads and even hand over a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
Other Gazans have told Israeli interrogators that Hamas is deeply entrenched in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to use hospitals as a base for attacks.
At least 1,200 people were killed and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 116 remaining hostages, more than 30 are believed to have died.
"A physiotherapist by day and a jihadist saboteur by night," Arab IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday night.
Adraee said Wadiya had worked for Islamic Jihad for 15 years helping to make rockets, adding that he was the terrorist group's "expert in the fields of electronics and chemistry."
Adraee also revealed that the same year Wadiya joined Doctors Without Borders (MSF), he "tried to leave the Gaza Strip for Iran, accompanied by two other terrorists, to participate in terrorist training there."
Adraee added: "No matter how much Doctors Without Borders tries to regard Al-Wadiya as an innocent healer who saved lives, he is a dangerous saboteur who is once again reminiscent of the way terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip exploit terrorist organizations. aid agencies, describing them as a 'human shield.'"
The Geneva-based medical aid organization denied that Wadiya was a terrorist and condemned the airstrike.
Terrorist groups penetrated Gaza's medical sector
According to the military, eighty-five percent of Gaza's hospitals have been used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for terrorist purposes.
As the Israel Press Service reported in October, Hamas made extensive use of Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest medical center. Hamas launched rockets from its compound, hid hostages in the bowels of the building, tortured collaborators and dug tunnels connecting Shifa with nearby sites. Israel also released a recording of a phone call confirming that Hamas also stores at least half a million liters of fuel beneath the compound.
In March, Israeli forces attacked Shifa after learning that Hamas had established a small government administration center there. The day Israeli forces entered the Shifa compound, Hamas was about to pay salaries to hundreds of its civil and military officials. Soldiers arrested more than 800 terrorists.
In December, Ahmed Kahlot, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, confirmed to Israeli interrogators that he and other staff members were Hamas agents. During interrogation, Kahlot described how Hamas used hospitals and ambulances to hide its agents, launch military activities, transport members of terrorist squads and even hand over a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
Other Gazans have told Israeli interrogators that Hamas is deeply entrenched in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to use hospitals as a base for attacks.
At least 1,200 people were killed and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 116 remaining hostages, more than 30 are believed to have died.
