Israel Kills Azzam Khalil al-Hayya, Son of Hamas Leader Khalil al-Hayya, in Gaza City

Israeli air strikes in Gaza City killed Azzam Khalil al-Hayya, the son of Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, after he was critically wounded in the Al-Daraj neighborhood late Wednesday night and died of his injuries on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera and a source in al-Shifa Hospital.

“Israeli strikes kill five Palestinians across Gaza in one day An Israeli air attack on Gaza City has killed the son of Khalil al-Hayya, the head of Hamas’s political bureau and the Palestinian group’s top negotiator in indirect talks with Israel”

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Reuters reported that Israel struck and critically wounded Azzam Al-Hayya on Wednesday in air strikes that also killed at least five people across the Gaza Strip, citing medics and Hamas sources.

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Drop Site News said Azzam al-Hayya was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Al-Daraj late Wednesday evening, was taken to al-Shifa hospital for surgery, and succumbed to his injuries Thursday morning.

Drop Site News also said Azzam al-Hayya was one of nine Palestinians, including a child, killed on Wednesday in multiple Israeli strikes across the enclave, and that another three Palestinians in the civilian police force in Gaza were killed Thursday in drone strikes.

After the strike, Khalil al-Hayya told Al Jazeera, “Our sons are the sons of the Palestinian people. My son and the sons of others are all children of our people without distinction, and our feelings toward them are the same.”

Taher al-Nono, a Hamas official and an aide to Hayya, said in a Facebook post, “Targeting Azzam Khalil Al-Hayya with shelling represents a peak of moral and ethical degradation,” adding that “Shelling and killing only make the negotiator more steadfast in his positions.”

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The Reuters account placed the violence alongside talks in Cairo, saying leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian factions held talks with mediators and the Board of Peace’s lead envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, to push U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan into its second phase.

Al Jazeera reported that Hamas condemned the attacks as “a continuation of the ongoing war of extermination against our people in the Strip,” while also citing that the Israeli security cabinet met earlier this week to discuss renewing the genocidal war after Hamas refused to commit to Israel’s demand for full disarmament.

Casualty figures in the sources diverged, with Al Jazeera citing that at least 837 Palestinians have been killed since the “ceasefire” last year and 2,381 others have been wounded, while Drop Site News said more than 840 Palestinians have been killed and over 2,400 wounded in Gaza since Israel signed a ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025.

“Son of Hamas Gaza chief injured in Israeli strike, five others killed Israeli Airstrikes and Ongoing Conflict in Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Details of the Israeli Airstrikes CAIRO, May 6 (Reuters) - Israel struck and critically wounded the son of the Hamas militant group’s top negotiator on Wednesday in air strikes that also killed at least five people across the Gaza Strip, according to medics and Hamas sources”

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Al Jazeera further stated that in total, at least 72,619 people have been killed and 172,484 wounded since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in 2023, and it said the majority of the victims are children and women.

Reuters said Israel says its strikes are aimed at thwarting attempts by Hamas and other Palestinian militants to stage attacks against its forces, and it reported that Israel has intensified its attacks on Gaza's Hamas-run police force.

Al Jazeera described the stakes for the Gaza plan as tied to disarmament and control, reporting that Israel and the U.S. have been calling for the full and unilateral disarmament of Hamas as a supposed precondition for the ceasefire talks to proceed, with no guarantee or timetable for an Israeli withdrawal.