Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has warned against the latest mass forced displacement plan by Israel to cram people into camps on the ruins of Rafah, Al Jazeera reports.

“This would de facto create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians, displaced over and over across generations,” he said in a post under the title, ‘A second Nakba?’. “This would also deprive Palestinians of any prospects of a better future in their homeland.”

Lazzarini said people cannot remain “silent and complicit of such large-scale forced displacement” and renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Nakba, or catastrophe, refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.