INCREASING SUPPORT FOR AND EXPECTATION OF ESCALATION OF UPRISING IN A NEW POLL
A new poll of 1270 adults in besieged Gaza and occupied West Bank conducted between 10-12 December and published on 14 December shows that:
- 67 % support and 31 % oppose the use of knives in the current confrontations with the Israeli occupation, but 73 % oppose the participation of young girls in 'stabbing attacks' and 25 % support it.
- 37 % believe that the uprising will develop into a new armed intifada, 18 % that it would develop into wide-scale peaceful popular confrontations and 13 % said the development of both peaceful and armed resistance would occur.
19 % say the confrontations will stay at current level and 10 % believe they will gradually fade.
- 66 % of the public (71 % in the Gaza Strip and 63 % in the West Bank) supported the claim that an armed intifada would serve the Palestinian national interests in ways that the mere negotiations could not.
Support for president Mahmoud Abbas is steady at 31 %, with 65 % wanting him to resign.
SOURCE:
Poll: Growing majority of Palestinians support armed intifada
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