Son of Hamas Gaza chief injured in Israeli strike, five others killed

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.



Azzam Al-Hayya, son of Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas' exiled Gaza chief who had been leading indirect talks with Israel over thePalestinian enclave's future, was wounded in a strike that also killed another person in Gaza City, they said.



Hayya had already lost three sons in previous Israeli attempts on his life - two in Gaza in the 2008 and 2014 rounds of fighting, while the third was killed in an Israeli attempt to kill Hamas leadership in Doha last year.