Fifty-eight cents. That is what UNCTAD, the UN’s trade and development body, now calculates as the average Palestinian’s daily income in Gaza, in a report released on 24 September that describes the territory’s economy as the most severe collapse on record, anywhere, full stop. Per-capita income has fallen 83 percent since 2022, from an already-poor baseline to $212 a year. More than 90 percent of the working-age population is without a job. Ninety-two percent of Gaza’s economic establishments, the shops and workshops and small businesses that make up an economy’s actual texture, are damaged or destroyed. UNCTAD’s reconstruction estimate now stands at $71.5 billion and is expected to keep rising, built from $35.2 billion in physical infrastructure damage and $22.7 billion in economic and social losses, against an occupation the report notes has run 59 years and counting.