A woman stands in her destroyed house in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images There are striking parallels between the present crisis in Gaza and Bosnia in the 1990s. A common feature has been the deliberate displacement of populations, one which raises profound concerns under international law. In March 1995, a directive issued by Radovan Karad?i?, the president of the Republika Srpska, ordered the Bosnian Serb army to “create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival or life” in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Over the course of four months, the inhabitants were...