UNRWA warns of Israeli mass displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza towards Rafah
GAZA (WAM)UNRWA has warned that Israeli mass displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza towards Rafah would deprive Palestinians of any prospects for a better future in their homeland."This would de-facto create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians, displaced over and over across generations,'' said UNRWA in a statement on Wednesday."We cannot be silent and complicit of such large scale forced displacement,'' it added.
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