Richard Hogan: When the atrocity in Gaza ends, we'll have to answer difficult questions

"Gaza has become a wasteland. Images of children ripped apart, homes flattened, hospitals in ruins, fathers and mothers desperately searching in rubble for their families."

Richard Hogan. Photograph: Moya Nolan

The 1948 Nakba "catastrophe" which saw the displacement and persecution of Palestinian Arabs and the continuing occupation of their territories and lands has become a symbol of Palestinian identity and determination to continue and survive. 

There are songs and poems written about the event.