{"id":22576,"date":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/gaza-death-toll-reaches-73928-palestinian-health-ministry\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","slug":"gaza-death-toll-reaches-73928-palestinian-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/gaza-death-toll-reaches-73928-palestinian-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza death toll rises to 73,928, Palestinian health ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has said the number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on Oct. 7, 2023, has reached 73,928, while the number of wounded has been recorded at 175,030.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said five people were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including one who died from previous injuries. In the same period, 35 others were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza added that since the ceasefire took effect in the enclave, 1,408 people have been killed and another 4,916 have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza Strip is a densely populated coastal enclave on the Mediterranean that has faced extensive attacks since Oct. 7, 2023, and casualty figures are continuously released by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian officials say Gaza\u2019s death toll has reached 73,928 since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, with 175,030 wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22576","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\/22576","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=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}