What I Missed

Rereading Joe Sacco's Footnotes In Gaza, I realize that I had accidentally skipped past pp. 116-117. P. 116 immediately follows Sacco's question:

"What are we to make of this?" (see here)

He suggests three possibilities:

that Omm Nafez, distraught at her husband's death, blocked her memory of Khamis' presence;

that Abu Antar was too young to remember;

that Khamis heard the story of his brother's death so often that he internalized it, feeling, in his guilt and grief, that he should have been there.

Sacco reminds us that:

Israeli soldiers shot Khamis' three brothers on 3 November, 1956;
the UN alleges that the Israelis killed 275 Palestinians in Khan Younis on that date.