If Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack reminded Jews of the Holocaust, the Palestinians saw Israel’s response over the last two years as another Nakba — catastrophe in Arabic — the 1948 atrocity, when armed Israelis drove 7,50,000 Palestinians from their homes and killed 15,000 people in a series of massacres. The number of Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli military has already reached several times more than the 1948 Nakba. Gaza’s health ministry put the number over 67,000, most of them civilians. The real figure, however, is believed to be much higher. Official numbers have underreported deaths by...