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In this photo taken Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Palestinian artist Ismail Dahlan, 36, paints at his studio in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Dahlan is among 45 Gaza artists showing their work in a West Bank exhibit, a rare showcase for painters living in the Hamas-ruled territory that is largely sealed off by an Israeli-Egyptian border blockade. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Palestinian artist Ismail Dahlan, 36, poses for a photo near his paintings at his studio in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Dahlan is among 45 Gaza artists showing their work in a West Bank exhibit, a rare showcase for painters living in the Hamas-ruled territory that is largely sealed off by an Israeli-Egyptian border blockade. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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This photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, shows an oil on canvas painting by by Palestinian artist Ashraf Sahwiel named Home Land, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, visitors are seen through the lenses of a reflective mask by Palestinian artist Mohammed Abu Hashish named The Other, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, a man looks at an acrylic on canvas painting by Palestinian artist Mohammed al-Madhoun named Housh, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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This photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, shows an acrylic on canvas painting by Palestinian artist Irina Naji, named Dream, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, a woman looks at acrylic on canvas paintings by Palestinian artist Shareef Sarhan named Remains of a Battle, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, Palestinian artist Maher Naji poses next to his acrylic on canvas painting named The Remaining Memory, during an art exhibition "Traces, a testimony to memory," displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Gaza Strip is tough turf for artists. An Israeli-Egyptian border blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory keeps them away from an international audience and potential buyers, while the local art market is close to nil. A new exhibit now offers them a chance to showcase their work outside Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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In this 1948 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1948 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, a convey of trucks and cars led by white U.N. jeeps travels through the Gaza desert carrying Arab refugees and their belongings from Gaza to Hebron, Transjordan. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1968 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Palestinian refugees have just arrived in east Jordan in a continuing exodus of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. The distances on the partially obscured signboard read "Jericho 8 km, Jerslm (Jerusalem) 43 km." (AP Photo/G.Nehmeh, UNRWA Photo Archives)
