An Israeli air strike on a residential area killed at least 73 Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia area, the Gaza civil defence said. “Our civil defence crews recovered 73 martyrs and a large number of wounded as a result of the Israeli air force targeting a residential area… in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency told AFP. “There are still martyrs under the rubble,” he added. Bassal said residences of several families had been hit in the strike, which happened late on Saturday. Gaza’s government media office confirmed the toll, saying t…