Footnotes in Gaza is a graphic book written by a journalist and is well-supported by his investigation about two comparatively unknown massacres of people in the Palestinian towns Khan Younis and Rafah in 1956, committed by Israeli army. Joe Sacco is a brilliant graphic journalist whose offerings from the war-torn areas from across the world, in the graphic report form, are said to be matchless. Working through the memories of survivors and UN/govt. files pertaining to these two episodes, ignored as insignificant events in the Middle East, Sacco documents what really happened then. Though the story is consigned to be nothing but forgotten footnotes, Sacco feels it is imperative to tell it because the past and present are a remorseless continuum and history must be built from these obscure blocks. If viewed on the lines of Mossad, Footnotes in Gaza, rather, is an influential work. Joe Sacco, of Maltese-American origin, has no personal axe to grind. In the early 2000s ...
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