A poll published Friday by Israeli private Channel 12 revealed that 66% of Israelis want Netanyahu to retire and not run for a seventh term as prime minister while only 72% of respondents support him staying in power and running for a new term.
The results cast laights on Netanyahu’s reluctance to hold early elections with no imminent prospects of a vote in ‘Israel’, which has faced international condemnation amid its ongoing brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since an October 7.
Netanyahu’s war on Gaza has so far killed more than 37,700 Palestinians most of them women and children, and over 86,500 injured, according to health ministry in Gaza.
Over nine months into the Israeli war, Gaza has become a landscape of ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
Gonen Ben Itzhak, a former member of Israel’s Shin Bet internal intelligence agency, railed once against Netanyahu in an interview with the French news agency AFP, accusing him of propping up Hamas while seeking to stymie any peace process in Gaza so that he could stay in power.
“Netanyahu thinks only about himself, about his criminal problems, how to survive politically in Israel,” he added.
On contrast, a poll conducted by Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre earlier this month showed that a significant shift in the Palestinian political landscape has taken place with indications that the recent war in the Gaza Strip has bolstered Hamas’ political stance.
40% of respondents believed the October-7- attack and the war that followed has served Palestinian national interests.
PCPSR-KAS poll conducted in April also showed that 41% expected the current war to end in favour of Hamas, while 59% of Palestinians believed Hamas should govern the Gaza Strip after the current war. Only 11% want PA Mahmoud Abbas to administer the enclave.
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