Uncertainty about the future, safety fears and concerns over the government's handling of the war in Gaza are leading some Jewish Israelis to leave their country and start new lives elsewhere.

Israel's army says it has killed a senior commander of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad in an attack inside a humanitarian zone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Ahmed Aish Salame al-Hashash was the head of the group's rocket and missile unit in the Rafah area of Gaza and responsible for firing rockets from an area designated as a humanitarian zone into Israeli territory,