Word: haggard
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Sacco's stay in Gaza involves several encounters with militants, haggard, sleep-deprived men always on the run from informers and Israeli assassinations. One of them, "Khaled", comes to a telling realization: "Okay, I hate the Jews but I can live with them." As Sacco tells TIME, "This was a strange and almost hopeful moment - that people who didn't like each other could still live side by side." Most of all, says Sacco, "You meet many people who aren't caught up in rage and anger, they just want a normal life." And it is these ordinary people...