{"id":20452,"date":"2026-08-26T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/gaza-death-toll-73438-palestinian-health-ministry\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:11:18","slug":"gaza-death-toll-73438-palestinian-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/gaza-death-toll-73438-palestinian-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza death toll rises to 73,438, Palestinian health ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said the number of people killed in the war in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 73,438, while the number of wounded has reached 174,447.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that over the past 24 hours, the bodies of seven people killed and 10 wounded people were transferred to hospitals in Gaza. According to the body, five of them were killed in recent attacks and two others died from the severity of earlier injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Ministry of Health added that a number of victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads, and that emergency teams and rescue groups have so far been unable to reach them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 11, 1,303 Palestinians have been killed and another 4,336 injured. The bodies of 814 dead people have also been recovered from under the rubble so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza Strip is a narrow coastal enclave on the Mediterranean that has for years been engulfed in war, blockade and humanitarian crisis, and its casualty figures are usually published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian health officials say Gaza&#8217;s war death toll has reached 73,438, with 174,447 wounded since Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}