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No New Chief, Hamas To Be Led By Ruling Committee: Report

Oct 22, 2024 · 1:24 AM Blog

Two Hamas sources said the Palestinian operator group was moving towards appointing a Doha-based ruling committee rather than a single successor to its chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops last week.

“The Hamas leadership’s approach is not to appoint a successor to the late chief, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, until their next elections” scheduled for March “if conditions permit”, a well-informed source from the group told AFP.

A five-member committee that was formed in August following the assassination of political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran “will take over the leadership of the group”, the source added.

The committee was formed to facilitate decision-making in view of the difficulty of communicating with Sinwar in Gaza before his death.

Sinwar was named the Gaza chief of the terrorist group in 2017, before rising to become the overall leader of Hamas after Haniyeh was assassinated in July.

The source said the committee is made up of representatives of the two Palestinian territories and the community, namely Khalil al-Hayya for Gaza, Zaher Jabarin for the West Bank and Khaled Meshaal for Palestinians abroad.

It also includes the head of Hamas’s Shura advisory council Mohammed Darwish and the secretary of the political bureau, who is never identified for security reasons.

All current members of the committee are based in Qatar.

According to the source, the committee is tasked with “governing the movement during the war and exceptional circumstances, as well as its future plans”.

He added that it is authorised to “make strategic decisions”.

Another source from the group said that the Hamas leadership discussed a proposal that was made “internally” to appoint a political chief without announcing their name.

But, the source added, the leaders preferred to rule through the committee.

Sinwar was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Wednesday, more than a year into the devastating war in the territory sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Israel still preventing humanitarian missions to north Gaza, Unrwa says

Oct 22, 2024 · 2:23 AM Blog

Israeli forces are besieging hospitals and shelters, medics say. The Israeli military says Hamas has regrouped in the area.

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‘Just Felt Sad’: Billie Lourd Pays Emotional Tribute To Mother Carrie Fisher On Her Posthumous 68th Birthday, SEE Here

Oct 22, 2024 · 2:23 AM Blog

Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of drug abuse.

Billie Lourd woke up feeling sad on the day that would have been her mother, Carrie Fisher’s 68th birthday. On October 21, The Ticket to Paradise actress took to Instagram to celebrate her late mother’s birthday and penned an emotional tribute in her memory. The post featured a throwback picture of Fisher blowing candles over her birthday cake next to a younger Lourd smiling and watching over.

“My mom would’ve been 68 today. Dead person birthdays are weird, to say the least,” she wrote in her caption. “On my mom’s birthday every year, I try to celebrate her as much as possible, but today I really wanted to celebrate her with her,” she added.

Lourd noted that every year on Fisher’s birthday, the grief hits her differently. One year, it gave her warmth or anger, and some years, she felt numb. However, this year she felt a void and wished her mother was with her. “Today when I woke up I just felt sad. I didn’t want to celebrate, I just wanted my mom,” she wrote.

When the grief of losing her mother “bodysnatched” her, she googled the average age of death for women in America, and the average answer was 80.2 years, as per the CDC. “My mom died when she was 60. 60 is too damn young to die,” the actress wrote in her caption.

According to the Star Wars actress’ toxicology report, her death was caused by sleep apnea, atherosclerotic heart disease, and “drug use.” Despite Lourd’s every effort, she could not help her mother get rid of her addiction issues. However, while she was alive, she always bared her heart about the ups and downs of the struggle to her “ in hopes it would help them escape their own addiction,” Lourd added.

“As an addict, being open about the struggle is the only way through. And the same goes for those of us affected by that struggle,” she wrote. She concluded her post by sending love to anyone who has lost a loved one to drug addiction. “You are not alone,” she wrote with a red heart emoji.

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