this paper investigates the response of palestinian literature to the intifada during the first four years, as reflected in the three main genres : poetry, short stories and novels. this intifada literature is an immediate response to events and it appeals to the readers' emotion directly, with peotry comprising the major part of it. with few exceptions, palestinian literature of the intifada continues to be field with slogans and stereo type. in a word, the literature of intifada can be characterized as deterritorialized literatures which tend to share the three aspects: 1) political immediacy of the writings 2) a collective value 3) national identity.