The continuous cycle of displacement, constantly being in “survival mode” and despair must stop, the head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini has said, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Again & again, the same tragic cycle,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X. “Earlier this week, the Israeli Authorities issued new evacuation orders for people in Gaza forcing hundreds of thousands out of Khan Younis & Rafah in the south.”

“These evacuation orders — the largest issued since October — impact nearly a quarter of a million people, most of them already displaced, multiple times,” he lamented. “People have no where to go.”

“They desperately search for nonexistent safety, setting up makeshift structures often in the rubble of bombed out buildings,” he said. “The risk of unexploded ordnance (UXO) is spreading.”

Citing a 9-year-old girl who was reportedly killed by a UXO in Khan Younis last week and six children who were injured, Lazzarini stressed: “The risk for children is especially high.”