Three years after October 7, Gaza war death toll reaches 74,243, ministry says

Three years after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Gaza's Health Ministry reports 74,243 Palestinians killed in the war.

• The October 7, 2023 Hamas attack killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages.
• The ministry's figures show 21,784 children, 11,213 women and 5,355 elderly people accounted for over half the war's dead.
• The ministry said 1,393 people have been killed since the October 10, 2025 ceasefire took effect, with bodies still recovered from under rubble.
• The Israeli military said in January 2026 it had killed about 25,000 Hamas fighters.