
Nearly 75% of Palestinians polled say Hamas was right to attack Israel on Oct. 7
When asked who should rule Gaza, 60% said the terror group, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.
Nearly 75% of Palestinians polled say Hamas was right to attack Israel on Oct. 7
When asked who should rule Gaza, 60% of respondents selected the terror group, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Nearly three in four Palestinians believe that Hamas was right in launching its Oct. 7 cross-border attack, in which terrorists savagely murdered more than 1,200 people in Israel and wounded thousands, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.
The Ramallah-based institute polled 1,231 Palestinian adults in the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria between Nov. 22 and Dec. 2. (The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points, the PSR said.)
The authoritative survey—the second of its kind since Oct. 7—found that 72% of respondents think Hamas was “correct” in carrying out its mass slaughter, while 22% characterized the terrorist group’s decision to attack as “incorrect.”
A whopping 89% of the respondents denied that Palestinian terrorists committed war crimes on Oct. 7, while 95% claimed that Israel breached international law during its defensive operation against Hamas in Gaza.
When asked to rate their satisfaction with various Palestinian actors, Hamas took the lead among the respondents with 72% satisfaction, followed by Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar (69%) and the Islamist group’s “political” leader, Ismail Haniyeh (51%).