The term "Second Nakba" refers to the displacement of Palestinians in and after the 1967 occupation of Palestine by Israel. The Nakba, which means catastrophe, refers to the war that took place between 1947-1949 and resulted in the uprooting of more than 80% of the Palestinian population that had inhabited the area on which Israel was built for centuries. The Second Nakba, which began in 1967, resulted in the displacement of a quarter to one third of the Palestinian population and the beginning of a new era in which the whole of it got to live under a complex Israeli regime. The term "Naksa" is used to describe this additional event, which can be translated as a serious quick escalation of an earlier catastrophe.

The Second Nakba is currently being used to describe the current situation in Palestine, where Israel has ordered Palestinians to leave their homes and land. The aim of the Israeli government is to pave the way for a second Nakba, or catastrophe, as the exodus of Palestinians from their lands in the course of the 1948 war is referred to in Arabic. The risk of a second Nakba is at its highest in 75 years, and it is impossible to predict exactly what form it may take. The current signs point to a series of expulsions, both creeping and sudden, rather than a singular event.