GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Scores of Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli strike on a multi-storey residential building housing at least six families in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town on Sunday, medics and residents said.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency said around 70 people were living in the property but the Gaza government media office put the number of those martyred at 72.
Video footage of the strike site showed locals pulling bodies from a huge pile of rubble, with surrounding houses also damaged, some heavily.
The Zionist army sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps, last month in a bid to force Palestinians out of the region. 
“The criminal bombing carried out by the fascist occupation army targeting a residential building in Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip, and destroying it over the heads of its residents—resulting in the martyrdom of more than fifty citizens, over a third of whom were children—is a blatant act of Zionist genocide, ethnic cleansing, and brutal revenge against defenseless civilians,” Hamas said in a statement.
Hamas underlined that the continuation of such barbaric massacres, genocide, and starvation campaigns aimed at “displacing our people and liquidating our national cause will not succeed in achieving their objectives or breaking the will of our people.”
A statement by the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas, on Sunday said fighters blew up an Israeli army vehicle during fighting in Beit Lahiya.  
An Israeli soldier in the Nachshon Batallion of the Kfir Brigade was killed during fighting in northern Gaza on Saturday, the Zionist army said.
Later on Sunday, an Israeli strike martyred five Palestinians, tasked with escorting aid trucks that entered the enclave, according to residents in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Another strike in Gaza City killed two men, they added.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, when a missile hit a house, medics said. Four other people were killed in the nearby Nuseirat camp, they added.
The tight siege of Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya and a series of evacuation orders have raised widespread concerns that the Zionist regime intends to force civilian populations to leave the northernmost parts of Gaza and will not permit their return.
“Over the last weeks, conversations in Gaza have been intense about the so-called ‘Generals’ Plan’ … within the Israeli forces … which consists of wiping Palestinians off the northern part of Gaza by either killing them, forcing them out, or starving to death those who stay,” Médecins Sans Frontières said.
“The way the ongoing offensive in the north is being waged … reinforces the idea that we are witnessing the execution of this plan,” the NGO added.
The Khan Younis municipality in southern Gaza said it has run out of the fuel needed to keep its water and sewage facilities working.
The municipality announced that sanitation, waste connection and transport are out of service, and water wells and desalination plants cannot be operated.
On Saturday evening, an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people martyred 10 and wounded 20 others, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.