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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – An opinion poll on the conflict between Palestinians published Wednesday shows a rise in support for Hamaswhich seems to indicate even the destruction of the Gaza Strip, and the great rejection of the West. President Mahmoud Abbasand almost 90% said they should resign.
A Palestinian voter’s findings show more difficulties ahead for the The vision of the Biden administration after the war for Gaza and raised questions about Israel’s goal of ending Hamas’ military and administrative power.
Washington has called for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, now led by Abbas, to eventually take control of Gaza and run the entire territory as a model state. According to the American officials, the PA should be revived, without approval or if it means leadership changes.
The PA manages the pockets of the The West Bank was occupied by Israel and Gaza was controlled until Hamas forces took control in 2007. Palestine no votes were taken since 2006 when Hamas won a majority in parliament.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the rightmost government in Israel’s history, has strongly denied any responsibility for the PA in Gaza and said that Israel should stop safety instructions there.
Arab allies say the US will only get involved in the reconstruction of the war if there is a strong commitment to a two-state solution, which is unlikely under the Netanyahu government. controlled by enemies of the Palestinian Authority.
With the results of the survey showing a decrease in the approval of the PA, at a time when there is no clear way to restart credible negotiations on the state of Palestine, the failure for the end of the war Gaza is an Israeli occupation, said voter Khalil Shikaki.
“Israel is stuck in Gaza,” Shikaki told The Associated Press ahead of the publication of the results of the survey by his Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, or PSR. “Perhaps the next government (Israel) will decide that Netanyahu is not right in presenting all these conditions, and they may decide to withdraw from Gaza. But the problem for the future, for Israel and Gaza, Israel is completely reoccupied. Gaza.”
The survey was conducted from November 22 to December 2 among 1,231 people in the West Bank and Gaza and had an error rate of 4 percent. In Gaza, election workers conducted 481 in-person interviews throughout the week of ceasefire that ended December 1.
Shikaki, who conducts regular elections, said that the error is one percent higher than usual because of the complications caused by the large number of residents at the time. the Israel-Hamas war. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the fighting in northern Gaza, and only voters were interviewed in central and southern Gaza, including displaced people, because they cannot reach the north during the suspension.
The survey provided information about Palestinian opinions regarding the October 7 attack by Hamas and other Gaza militants in southern Israel, which killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. . More than 18,400 Palestinians, about two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed in a series of attacks and ground attacks in Gaza during Israel’s latest war against Hamas, which has in his third month.
Shikaki said that Gazans are more critical of Hamas than those in the West Bank, that support for Hamas has always increased during armed conflicts before the crackdown, and even now. most Palestinians do not support the terrorist group.
Despite the damage, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe that Hamas was right in launching the attack in October, the poll showed. Many people believed Hamas’ claims that it had defended a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish rioters and won the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas had committed war crimes, and most said they had not seen the videos showing the militants committing the acts. violent.
The videos, along with many eyewitness accounts and The Associated Press reports while others show hundreds of civilians in southern Israel, including women and children abducted or shot down in their own homes. It was there too stories of widespread sexual violence.
But while Israeli media have focused heavily on the attack in recent weeks, Palestinian homes have been focused on the war in Gaza and the suffering of civilians there.
Shikaki said he remains the most popular politician Marwan Barghouti, a prominent figure in Abbas’ Fatah movement is serving a long prison sentence in Israel for his involvement in a series of deadly attacks during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. In a two-way presidential race, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, would defeat Abbas but in a three-way race, Barghouti would be slightly ahead, the person said. vote.
Overall, 88% want Abbas to resign, up 10 percent from three months ago. In the West Bank, 92% demanded the resignation of the octogenarian who presided over an administration widely seen as corrupt, autocratic and ineffective.
At the same time, 44% in the West Bank said they supported Hamas, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the military enjoyed 42% support, down slightly from 38% three months ago.
According to Shikaki, support for the PA has further declined, with nearly 60% saying it should resign. In the West Bank, the continued coordination of the defense of Abbas and the Israeli military against Hamas, his strong political enemy, is not popular.
Netanyahu attacked Abbas for years, saying that he allowed Israel to invade the West Bank, but at the same time he allowed it. regular Qatari support payments in Gaza Hamas was strengthened. Critics say that in general Netanyahu’s approach was intended to stop negotiations on the state of Palestine.
The election also showed widespread discontent in the international community, especially the United States, major European countries and even the United Nations, which pushed for an early termination of captivity in Gaza.
“The level of anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism is very high in Palestine because of the positions they have taken regarding international humanitarian law and what is happening in Gaza,” Shikaki said. .