71% of Palestinians, in both the West Bank and Gaza, supports Hamas' decision to attack Israel on October 7. This represents a significant drop in the West Bank and a significant increase in Gaza.
64% believe Hamas will win the war.
59% want to see Hamas control the Gaza Strip after the war, far more than Fatah. In the West Bank, 64% want to see Hamas control Gaza.
75% in the West Bank and 62% in the Gaza Strip express approval with how oHamas is performing during the war. The only people in the world with a higher approval rating among Palestinians is Yemen, with 83% approval.
Hamas was the political party supported by a plurality, 34% to 17% for Fatah.
Yet the presidential candidate that Palestinians are most interest in is terrorist Marwan Barghouti.
There is one response to the survey that proves that, to put it charitably, Palestinians are delusional.
As we found in the previous poll, almost all Palestinians (94% think Israel has committed war crimes during the current war. By contrast, only 5% (compared to 10% three months ago) think Hamas also committed such crimes; 4% think Israel has not committed such crimes and 91% think Hamas did not commit war crimes during the current war.80% (compared to 85% in December 2023) say they did not see videos, shown by international news outlets, showing acts committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, such as the killing of women and children in their homes; only 19% (11% in the West Bank and 30% in the Gaza Strip) saw these videos.When asked if Hamas did commit these atrocities that are seen in these videos, the overwhelming majority (93%) said no, it did not, and only 5% said it did. The belief that Hamas fighters have committed atrocities against civilians is higher among those who did watch videos showing such atrocities (17%) compared to those who did not (2%).
In other words, 83% of Palestinians who saw video of Hamas murdering women and children in their homes do not think that they attackers committed any atrocities.
Talk about cognitive dissonance!
There could be several explanations. One is that they simply don't accept what their eyes are telling them. Or they might think that the atrocities were done by other non-Hamas Gazans.
Or, perhaps, they do not consider butchering Jews to be an atrocity, or a violation of international law, in the first place.
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