Beit Lahiya, November 18 (RHC)-- More than 70 Palestinians have lost their lives or sustained injuries when an Israeli airstrike targeted a multi-story residential building in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern part of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.

The Israeli army sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia last month in what it said was an offensive to fight members of the Hamas resistance group waging retaliatory attacks and prevent them from regrouping.

The towns have been besieged for more than 40 days, without food, water, medicine, or aid, and under constant bombing, shelling, and Israeli drones and quadcopters.

Elsewhere in the central part of Gaza, there are explosions happening in Nuseirat and al-Bureij refugee camps.

Medics said there are 17 killed Palestinians in the morgue of al-Aqsa Hospital, and they are waiting for coffins to bury them. This is while there is a shortage of coffins across the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces also targeted a house in Nuseirat, where at least six Palestinians were killed. There are four women and a child among the fatalities.  According to civil defense teams, there are members of the same family still trapped under the rubble.

Israeli troops also bombed another house in Bureij, where at least 10 Palestinians were killed. There are more family members trapped under the rubble, locals were quoted as saying by media.

Separately, an Israeli bombing killed five Palestinians in the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Palestinian media outlets are reporting that Israeli military forces are demolishing tens of residential buildings in Jabalia refugee camp.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to the occupying entity’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed 43,799 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 103,601 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

Israel’s military has systematically blocked the entry of lifesaving food, medicine, medical supplies, fuel, and tents into the besieged Palestinian territory since October 2023.

More than one year into the Tel Aviv regime’s campaign of death and destruction, the territory’s critical infrastructure such as water networks, sanitation facilities, and bread mills has all been razed to the ground.