A survey Published Wednesday by the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research (PCPSR), in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), has found that more than 50 percent of Palestinians believe Hamas should govern the Gaza Strip after the current war.
59 percent of the respondents from Gaza and the occupied West Bank said they want Hamas to run post-war Gaza, while only 11 percent want the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to administer the enclave. Another 13 percent said they hoped the PA would control the enclave only under the leadership of someone other than Abbas.
Despite that the international alarm has grown over the Palestinian civilian death toll which resulted from the Israeli offensive against the Gaza enclave since the 7th of October, Hamas’ popularity has shown only a five percent drop from PCPSR- KAS’s last poll in December.
On the other hand, the 88-year-old President Abbas has seen his popularity plummet in recent years over failures to mend ties with Hamas and to advance Palestinian hopes for statehood.
According to the survey, conducted between 5-10 March on 1580 adults, 70 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war, 61 percent approved the role if its Gaza-based leader, Yahya Sinwar, who was released in a 2011 prisoner swap after spending 20 years in Israeli prisons.
The survey also revealed that 71 percent of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank believed that 7-October Hamas attack was “correct”, a drop of just one percent, according to the organisation’s previous poll published in December.
According to the respondents, the results are in favour of Hamas because, during its course of ruling, there have been no substantive peace negotiations with ‘Israel’ in more than a decade, while the PA is widely seen as having become increasingly corrupt and autocratic, and Abbas has not named a successor.
The survey’s result intersects with ceasless loud protests in ‘Israel’ to fall Bengamin Netanyahu, who has been met with opposition by democratic party leaders on his leadership and being accused that “his collition no longer fits the needs of Israel.”
Israeli offensive on Gaza approaches half a year, claiming the lives of nearly 32,000 Palestinians since 7 October, including at least 14,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
‘Israel’ has also been accused of using starvation as a weapon of war, for it has continued to severely restrict the entry of humanitarian aid for over five months.
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