Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks reaches 74,653 people
Eight people were killed and 29 wounded in the past 48 hours, bringing the number wounded since October 2023 to 176,007.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip from Israeli attacks rose to 74,653 people on Wednesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Medical sources said most of the dead were women and children, and that the number of wounded since the war began had reached 176,007.
The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when the sources said Israel started its offensive on the territory.
In the last 48 hours, the bodies of eight people killed and 29 wounded were admitted to hospitals in Gaza, the sources added.
Since a ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct. 11, 2025, Israeli attacks have killed 1,622 Palestinians and wounded 5,878 others, the sources said.
The bodies of 850 people killed were also recovered from rubble over the same period, the sources said.
The report described the forced displacement of nearly two million people from across the Gaza Strip, most of whom have been pushed into the southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt.
The report called this Palestine's largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the creation of Israel.
The Gaza war followed Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and a ceasefire took effect in October 2025 without bringing a full end to the fighting, according to the latest figures reported.
