The 23-year-old son of Hamas’s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya succumbed Thursday to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Wednesday, a hospital and senior Hamas official said.

Reports of Azzam al-Hayya’s death came as Hamas leaders were in Cairo to discuss the future of the ceasefire agreement they reached with Israel in October, after two years of war sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.

On Wednesday, Al-Ahli Hospital and a security source said that a strike on Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood that evening had killed one person and wounded 10 others, including the younger Hayya. He was confirmed dead Thursday by Shifa Hospital and Hamas official Basem Naim. Both Al-Ahli and Shifa hospitals are in Gaza City.

Al-Ahli Hospital also said Wednesday that it received three people killed and several wounded in an Israeli drone strike on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, and health officials said another man was killed in a strike near southern Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday, according to health officials.

The man killed in Rafah was identified in Arabic media as the head of Khan Younis-area drug enforcement in the Hamas police, with a rank equivalent to colonel.

On Thursday, Hamas also said three of its police officers were killed in an IDF strike on a “guard post belonging to a security headquarters” in western Gaza City, following Palestinian media reports of an Israeli attack in the area.

The IDF has not commented on any of the incidents, but regularly says such killings come in response to ceasefire violations.

#صورة| العقيد نسيم الكلزاني، مدير مكافحة المخدرات في شرطة خانيونس، الذي اغتاله الاحتلال........

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