A bloody incident in 1956 left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. To uncover the truth, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, delving into Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy.