Doctors Without Borders and IDF trade barbs over slain Gaza charity worker
The IDF has released photos claiming to be proof that Fadi al-Wadiya, who was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday, was a “significant operative” in the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza. MSF has rejected the claims.
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00:00The Israeli military has released photos of what it says show a staffer with the aid group
00:05Doctors Without Borders wearing military fatigues at a gathering of Gaza militants.
00:12Fadi Al-Wadia was killed in an airstrike on Gaza City earlier this week while he was cycling
00:18to work at the charity's nearby clinic.
00:24Israel claims the photos prove Al-Wadia was a significant operative in the Islamic Jihad
00:30group and was involved in its rocket programme.
00:34The aid group has said it had no indication he was a militant.
00:39It comes as three airstrikes killed at least 18 people and injured several others in the
00:43crowded Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza earlier this week.
00:51The local hospital director said there were women and children among the killed.
01:16Elsewhere in Gaza, the stifling summer heat has raised health risks in refugee camps as
01:22the territory's ability to dispose of garbage, treat sewage and deliver clean water has been
01:27virtually decimated by war.