Two Hamas officials told the BBC discussions to choose a successor for the group's leader Yahya Sinwar, whose killing was confirmed on Thursday, will begin very soon. The officials said that Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar's deputy and the group's most senior official outside Gaza, is considered a strong candidate.

Biden says Hamas leader guilty of ‘unspeakable savagery’ as State Department promises to ‘redouble’ ceasefire talk efforts

Almost two months before Israel's military accidentally located Hamas' leader with the help of a drone, then killed him, Yahya Sinwar had been hiding in southern Gaza with six Israeli hostages − one of them an American citizen. The bodies of the hostages ...