{
  "id": 9598330,
  "title": "Gaza suffers world's worst ever economic crisis: UN",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/gaza-suffers-worlds-worst-ever-economic-crisis-un",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T17:30:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/gaza-suffers-worlds-worst-ever-economic-crisis-un"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. Israel's military offensive sparked by Hamas militants' attack in October 2023 devastated the territory of two million people before a patchy ceasefire was announced in October 2025.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Gaza’s recovery needs reach $71.5bn amid ‘most severe economic crisis’: UN",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/gazas-recovery-needs-reach-71-5bn-amid-most-severe-economic-crisis-un",
        "published": "2026-09-24T17:03:31.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}