ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by briefly sketching the massacre of Khan Younis as it has been represented in official reports. It highlights the limitations that the expectations of historical accuracy place on these representations. The chapter explains why, with the help of theorists of the representation of violence, such accounts of violence and trauma in war and conflict should rather be related through aesthetic narratives, which accommodate the inflections of memory. It analyses the case of Joe Sacco's graphic narrative Footnotes in Gaza as an example of Nora's notion of a 'site of memory' both in itself and in the depiction of Omm Nafez, a survivor of the massacre Sacco portrays. This chapter analyses memories of the violence and trauma of the Khan Younis massacre in 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, when Egypt was in control of the Gaza Strip and where a situation of war and conflict endures to this day.
