Amman, August 17 (Petra) - More than 73,300 Palestinians have been killed and over 174,000 injured in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, according to a Gaza Health Ministry update on Monday.

In the past 24 hours, local hospitals received five bodies and 18 injured people from ongoing Israeli strikes.

The ministry noted that since the ceasefire on Oct. 11, 2025, some 1,265 people were killed and 4,198 injured, with rescue teams having retrieved 813 bodies from the rubble.

Emergency crews have been unable to reach numerous victims, who are still trapped under collapsed buildings or on roads across the enclave, it said.

//Petra// HA

17/08/2026 15:37:43