NEW YORK/JERUSALEM, June 25, 2024 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged and strongly condemns the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City.
Al-Wadiya was killed along with five other people, including three children, near an MSF clinic. He was cycling to work at the time, on his way to provide medical care to others who had been injured. Al-Wadiya was a 33-year-old physiotherapist and father of three who joined MSF in 2018.
"Killing a health care worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking," said Caroline Seguin, MSF operations manager for Palestine. “It's cynical and abhorrent.”
Al-Wadiya's death marks the sixth killing of an MSF colleague in Gaza since October 7. This attack is yet another brutal example of the senseless killing of Palestinian civilians and health care workers in Gaza. In total, approximately 500 health workers have been killed in Gaza since October.
Statement on the killing of Fadi Al-Wadiya
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An immediate and sustained ceasefire is critical to prevent more deaths and injuries and scale up the amount of aid getting into the Strip.
