GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- An Israeli airstrike targeting a house in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp martyred at least 10 Palestinians Wednesday. 
Additionally, two people were martyred in Israeli attacks on the Shujaya neighborhood in Gaza City and another eight in an attack on southern Gaza’s Mawasi “safe zone”.
Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources, that 47 Palestinians had been martyred in the last 24 hours, with another 182 injured.
This brings the death toll in the besieged enclave since October last year to 43,712, with more than 103,258 wounded. At least 10,000 people are still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.
Health officials report that over 60 percent of the victims are women and children.
Senior military officials have told Haaretz Wednesday the Zionist army is establishing long-term presence in Gaza.
According to the Israeli newspaper, which quoted officers and senior commanders in the military, the military is gearing up to remain in the besieged Palestinian enclave at least until the end of 2025.
The newspaper reported that the Israeli army’s accelerated efforts to expose large areas in Gaza - or as Haaretz put it, “destroying existing buildings and infrastructure in such a way that dangers to the forces cannot hide in them, but no one can live in them either” - show intent to stay in the territory for a considerable period.
In addition, the area has seen the construction of new roads and long-term military facilities. “These are not posts that are built for a month or two,” a commander said.
Soldiers told Haaretz they have turned northern Gaza into a sort of military enclave, having forcibly displaced most of its civilian population.
Senior Israeli political and war officials deny carrying out the “Generals’ Plan”, a siege strategy to forcefully empty northern Gaza by labeling all remaining civilians as military targets and blocking the delivery of food and medical supplies.
However, senior military sources told Haaretz that what is being presented to the Israeli public is “not necessarily what is actually happening”.
According to them, the Israeli military is required to empty villages and cities of their residents.
The newspaper adds that up to 20,000 people remain in the area that once had over 500,000.
“The way it looks on the ground, the military won’t leave Gaza before 2026,” an officer said.
“When you see the roads being paved here, it’s clear that this isn’t intended for the ground maneuvers or for raids by the troops into various places,” they added.
“These roads lead, among other places, to the places from which some of the settlements were removed. I don’t know of any intent to rebuild them, that isn’t something we’re told explicitly. But everyone understands where this is going.”
Israel used to have illegal settlements in the Gaza Strip, which were abandoned once it withdrew from the enclave in 2005.
Several Zionists have called for a resettlement into the territory, a move backed by some senior politicians, including ministers.