UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on Gaza: “It’s an exodus under our watch”

“It’s an exodus under our watch, a river of people being forced to flee their home.”

The UNRWA Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini, said in a press conference on Thursday that the world is witnessing “the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948”, describing the scale of destruction and loss in Gaza as “staggering.”

Lazzarini alluded to the Palestinian Nakba or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist forces to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948, saying that some Palestinians “were forced to relive the unlivable trauma from the past, mostly unhealed.”