إما مقاوما و إما مقتولا : الانتفاضة الفلسطينية الأولى كنقطة تحول في إعادة صياغة وكالة جسد وروح الفلسطيني ة

Abstract EN

This article traces the transformations in restructuring the Palestinian body as a site for the Israeli colonial marking, and as a tool of liberation used by the Palestinian society.

Drawing on ethnographic an archival data, the article explores how the first Intifada (1987) should be considered as a historical turning point in intensifying the Palestinian body transformation.

during the first Intifada, the Palestinian body constituted as a main tool in breaking away from the colonial entity, but also used by that entity to impose its sovereignty over the Palestinians’ lives and deaths.

The article is divided into two main interlocking themes that cannot be separated.

The first theme focuses on how since the first intifada, the Palestinians intensively and collectively confronted the Israeli colonial tools by using the internal and external spaces of the body.

Examples include direct confrontation with the Israeli army, penetrating checkpoints and reaching the Israeli space-time, smuggling of knowledge from prisons, and hunger strikes inside the prisons.

The second theme focuses on the Israeli colonial apparatuses inscribed on the lived and dead body.

Examples include the execution and elimination of the Palestinian, sovereignty over funerals and burials of martyrs, and withholding corpses.

The article claims that we can read and write the Palestinian history by reading what was inscribed over the Palestinian body.