Poll: 57% of Palestinians see Hamas strengthened by Gaza war
Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that Hamas is stronger now than it was before the Israeli offensive in December and January, a new opinion poll suggests. The poll, released on Wednesday by researchers at An-Najah National University in the West Bank city of Nablus, was conducted between 1 and 2 February with a sample size of 1361 people in the West Bank and Gaza...
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Poll: 57% of Palestinians see Hamas strengthened by Gaza war
Ma'an news
Feb 4, 2009
Nablus – Ma’an – Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that Hamas is stronger now than it was before the Israeli offensive in December and January, a new opinion poll suggests.
The poll, released on Wednesday by researchers at An-Najah National University in the West Bank city of Nablus, was conducted between 1 and 2 February with a sample size of 1361 people in the West Bank and Gaza.
Other key findings of the poll:
39.9% of respondents supported military operations by Palestinian resistance factions even after agreeing on a truce.
As to whom the funds for rebuilding the Gaza Strip should be given, 19.8% said that the Palestinian Authority should be in charge of these funds, 18.1% said Hamas, 22.3% said a national committee from all Palestinian factions, and 21.1% said the UNRWA should be in charge.
45.8% of respondents believed that the funds donated to the Gaza Strip are being distributed with according to factional biases.
34.9% of respondents believed that aid to the Gaza Strip reaches the people who deserve it most.
47.5% of respondents believed that after the war on Gaza there is a genuine desire among the concerned parties to end the current Palestinian division.
54.4% of respondents believed that after the war on Gaza, the Palestinian parties (Fatah, Hamas, Jihad, the left, etc) are capable of ending the current Palestinian division.
23.7% of respondents said that those who hinder the Palestinian dialogue are members of Hamas and Fatah; 15.7 % blamed Hamas; 10.9% blamed Fatah.
60% of respondents believed that after the war on Gaza the Palestinian public is ready to support a national reconciliation.
54.4% of respondents believed that Fatah is concerned with a national reconciliation on the bases of the top national Palestinian interests.
48.6% of respondents believed that Hamas is concerned with a national reconciliation on the basis of national Palestinian interests.
48.9% of respondents believed that Fatah movement participated in widening the internal Palestinian rift.
62.8% of respondents believed that Hamas movement participated in widening the internal Palestinian rift.
56.9% of respondents believed that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip increased the possibility of the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank.
24% of respondents believed that the new American administration under Obama is serious in its endeavors to achieve peace in the Middle East.
64.3% of respondents saw that Hamas should accept a truce for a year and a half.
34.1% of respondents believed that Israel is the main beneficiary of a truce between Israel and Hamas; 17.1% said the beneficiary is Hamas and 43% said that the beneficiary is the citizens of the Gaza Strip.
31.6% of respondents believed that Hamas emerged victorious from the last war; 13.4 % said the victorious side is Israel.
51.7% of respondents supported allowing Arab troops to enter the Gaza Strip.
26.7% of respondents supported allowing Arab troops to enter the West Bank.
66.3% of respondents supported allowing international troops to enter the Gaza Strip.
21% of respondents supported allowing international troops to enter the West Bank.
68.3% of respondents judged media coverage of the war on Gaza as "good."
79% of respondents said that they will participate in the coming presidential elections. From among those who said they will participate, 31.9% said that they will give their votes to Fatah's candidate; 23.5% said they will give their votes to Hamas' candidate.
79.4% of respondents said that they will participate in the coming legislative elections. From among those who said they will participate, 31.4% said that they will give their votes to Fatah's candidates; 24.6% said they will give their votes to Hamas' candidates.
If PLC elections were held, 29.7% of respondents would expect Fatah to win; 33.3% Hamas to win.
51.9% of respondents believed that there are horizons for a Palestinian National reconciliation.
50.7% of respondents believed that Hamas movement assaults Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip.
48.8% of respondents believed that the Palestinian Authority arrests Hamas activists in the West Bank.
55% of respondents expressed fear for their lives under the present circumstances.
59.3% of respondents said that they are pessimistic of the general Palestinian situation at this stage.
53.9% of respondents said that they neither feel safe for themselves nor for their families and properties under the current circumstances.
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