Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 by Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :...

 about two bloody incidents during the Suez War. It was published in 2000

2000 in comics

-February:*Strange Adventures vol. 2, #4, final issue cover-dated February - January :* January 5: Goseki Kojima, co-creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, dies at age 71.* January 6: Mad magazine fixture Don Martin dies at age 68....

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The book describes the author's quest to get to the bottom of what happened in Khan Younis and in Rafah

Rafah

Rafah , also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate...

 in November 1958. According to United Nations figures, 275 Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis on 3 November 1958 and 111 in Rafah

Rafah

Rafah , also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate...

 on 12 November 1958.

Sacco bases his book on conversations with Palestinians in Rafah

Rafah

Rafah , also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate...

 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

Rachel Corrie

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement . She was killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces bulldozer when she was standing or kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent the IDF from...

 and the reactions to the outbreak of the Iraq War.

The book itself focuses mainly on the Palestinian side of the story. Several appendices add documents and sources, and give the Israeli view on the demolition of homes in Rafah.

Publication

• Sacco, Joe (2009). 'Footnotes in Gaza, Metropolitan Books, ISBN 0805073477. Jonathan Cape
  Jonathan Cape
  Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...
  
  , ISBN 0224071092.

External links

• Review, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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