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,

Israel succeeded Wednesday in its year-long mission to kill Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the man accused of being one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2023 attacks.

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 ...