A new survey shows that 43 percent of Palestinians support military action against Israel, the Times of Israel reports.
Additionally, 57 percent of those surveyed believe Hamas was victorious in the war that took place over the summer.
Some 53 percent claimed the recent war achieved the interests of the Palestinian people, while a little more than 21 percent said that the war damaged those interests.
At the same time Fatah, Hamas’s rival, has weakened while Hamas is getting stronger. Before the conflict began, 41.7 percent of Palestinians said they trusted Fatah but by the end of the fighting that percentage had slipped to 35.1. On the eve of the war nearly 17 percent said Hamas was the organization they believed in most, while in the current survey 26 percent said they believed in Hamas.
Support for the military struggle against Israel rose dramatically—from 31.5 percent on the eve of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July, to 42.7 percent in the new survey.
