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| Author | Joe Sacco |
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| Illustrator | Joe Sacco |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Khan Yunis, Rafah, Suez War |
| Genre | Comics journalism |
| Publisher | Henry Holt and Company Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, paperback |
| Pages | 418 |
| ISBN | 0-8050-7347-7 |
Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic graphic narrative by Joe Sacco about bloody incidents between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza during the Suez Crisis. It was published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company in the U.S. and Jonathan Cape in the UK.
The book describes the author's quest to get to the bottom of what happened in Khan Yunis and in Rafah in Gaza in November 1956.[1] According to United Nations figures quoted in the book, Israeli forces killed 275 Palestinians in Khan Yunis on 3 November 1956 and 111 in Rafah on 12 November 1956.[2]
Sacco bases his book on conversations with Palestinians in Rafah and the neighbouring town of Khan Younis, and interweaves the events of 1956 with the events in Rafah at the time of the interviews—the bulldozing of homes, the death of Rachel Corrie and the reactions to the outbreak of the Iraq War.
- ^ Steinhauer, Jillian. "The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism," The Nation (Dec. 28, 2020).
- ^ Hass, Amira. "A thin black line," Haaretz (Nov. 2, 2010).