REQUIEM FOR GAZA HC (MR) (07 Oct Release)

In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco¸ author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza¸ and Chris Hedges¸ the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times¸ traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza¸ they use the experience and stories of these families to detail the crucible of the genocide¸ the loss of homes and communities¸ the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones¸ the constant displacement¸ the terror of indiscriminate killing¸ the hunger and deprivation¸ the obliteration of all that was known and familiar¸ and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world that continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destruction of Gaza and mass slaughter. Requiem for Gaza¸ like their New York Times best seller Days of Destruction¸ Days of Revolt¸ combines comics and single images drawn by Sacco within the narrative written by Hedges. Hedges’ vivid prose and Sacco’s visceral images complement each other and together paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide. The collective power of the individual stories that chronicle the first day of the genocide¸ the forced evacuation of homes¸ the targeted assassinations¸ the false hopes engendered by ceasefires¸ the dislocation and alienation of exile¸ the brutal killing and hasty burial of family members¸ and the humiliation of living under tarps without clean food and water bring every aspect of the genocide to life. Set against this horror are stories of self-sacrifice and compassion that show how Palestinians not only clung to their humanity¸ but morally triumphed over their killers.