Israel kills son of top Hamas peace talks negotiator

An Israeli aerial strike has killed the son of Hamas’ main ‌negotiator successful US-mediated talks implicit the Gaza Strip’s future, arsenic leaders of the militant radical held talks successful Cairo aimed astatine safeguarding their truce with Israel.

Azzam al-Hayya, ‌son of Khalil al-Hayya, succumbed to his wounds connected Thursday aft being struck successful an Israeli onslaught connected Wednesday night, elder Hamas authoritative Basim Naim said.

He is the 4th son of Hamas’ ‌exiled Gazan main to person been killed successful Israeli attacks.

The Israeli subject did not respond to a petition for comment.

Later connected Thursday, wellness officials and the Hamas-run interior ministry said astatine slightest three constabulary officers were killed and different people, including 1 policeman, were wounded when an Israeli aerial strike targeted a constabulary station successful western Gaza City.

Reuters has reported that Israel has intensified its attacks connected the Hamas-run constabulary unit successful the Gaza Strip, which the militant radical has used to reenforce its clasp successful the areas it controls successful the strip.

Hayya, who has 7 children, has survived aggregate Israeli attempts to termination him. An Israeli strike successful Doha successful 2025 targeting ​Hamas enactment killed different son, though Hayya survived. Two different sons were killed successful past Israeli attempts connected his life, successful Gaza strikes successful 2008 and 2014.

Speaking to Al Jazeera aft the onslaught connected Wednesday night, earlier his son’s decease was announced, Hayya accused Israel of trying to undermine mediators’ efforts to propulsion up with US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, overseen by his Board of Peace.

“These Zionist attacks and violations intelligibly bespeak that the concern does not want to abide by a ceasefire oregon by the archetypal phase,” Hayya said.

Chanting “Allahu akbar”, oregon “God is Greatest”, dozens ⁠of Palestinians rallied successful Gaza astatine the ceremonial of Hayya, the son, and held special prayers earlier ‌walking him to burial. ​Women relatives paid respects to the white-shrouded body.

The group’s Gaza spokesperson, Hazem Qassem, said the sidesplitting of the Hamas leader’s son was a failed effort by Israel to ​influence the negotiating team and win governmental concessions.

“We accidental that this repeated argumentation of targeting the leaders and the sons of leaders will not succeed successful extorting a governmental presumption from our Palestinian people, nor the Hamas leadership, nor its negotiating delegation,” Qassem told Reuters.

The violence comes arsenic leaders of ​Hamas ​and different Palestinian factions held talks with determination mediators and the Board of Peace’s ​lead envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, this week successful Cairo, to propulsion Trump’s Gaza program into ‌its 2nd phase, officials said.

The plan, which Israel and Hamas agreed to successful October, involves Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza and reconstruction starting arsenic Hamas lays down its weapons.

At slightest 830 Palestinians person been killed since the ceasefire woody took effect, according to section medics, while Israel says militants person killed 4 of its soldiers implicit the ​same period.

Israel says its strikes are aimed astatine ⁠thwarting attempts by Hamas and different Palestinian militants to stage attacks against its forces.

Source: AAP