Palestinian Women and the Israeli Violence

Abstract

This paper focuses on the effect of Israeli occupation on Palestinian women in Khalifeh's The Inheritance. In the main, the paper is going to concentrate on the Israeli violence against Palestinian women in this novel. in fact, women fall victims of occupation oppression. They suffer from the sequences of colonialism and its effect upon women. The novels specifically hinge on Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands portrayed in the plots. The people of these lands deal with various types of colonial oppression, involving racial violence. Women are the most influenced people by the encounter with Israeli occupation because they lose their sons, husbands and relatives. As a result, they lead hard life created by the Jewish occupation who practice hard violence against them. As such, the paper will accurately study women's agony in order to accentuate the essence of racial violence in the course of the novels' plots.