He said Israeli forces killed three militants in an airstrike in Tulkarem and four in an airstrike in Al-Fara
sentinelcolorado.com
Maybe...
Assuming those in the West Bank are innocent is kind of disingenuous.
The findings signal more difficulties for the Biden administration’s postwar vision for Gaza and raise questions about Israel’s goal of ending Hamas’ capabilities.
apnews.com
The rise In support is a lot more to do with the falling of support for the fatah. Not so much as pro hamas support . They've tried not fighting. They think the outcome for them is going to be the same as the people in Gaza.
Also what's the question on the poll do you reckon?
Do you support hamas or the idf?
Do you support fatah or hamas?
Etc etc etc. I'd love to see the actual question.
Here's one from June 24
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www.haaretz.com
Despite the calamity in Gaza triggered by the October 7 attack, support for Hamas has surged in the West Bank, while dipping in Gaza, a new poll finds. The numbers reflect a backlash against the Palestinian Authority, seen as a corrupt, illegitimate failure, unable to provide a path towards independence.
Nevertheless, consecutive surveys by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research Survey indicate support for Hamas continues to rise in the West Bank, even as it dips in Gaza. Earlier this month, some 41 percent of West Bankers said they support Hamas, compared to 35 percent in March and 12 percent in September.
Support for Fatah, Hamas's nemesis and the dominant power in the Palestinian Authority (PA), has decreased since the beginning of the war, dropping to just 17 percent, compared to 26 percent in September.
It's leadership grapples with a profound crisis of legitimacy. Since coming to power in 2005, President Mahmoud Abbas has systematically marginalized democratically elected institutions, packed his inner circle with loyalists, expelled rivals from Fatah, and founded alternative institutions with himself in a leadership position. Abbas has consolidated all key leadership positions, serving simultaneously as PA president and PLO and Fatah chairman.
Recently, Fatah lists suffered setbacks in municipal and university student council elections, illustrating its weakening grassroots support. Satisfaction with Fatah and Abbas is virtually nonexistent, with 94 percent of West Bankers demanding the president's resignation and 80 percent who view the PA as corrupt. Support for dissolving the PA stands at nearly 60 percent.
But perhaps most significantly, thirty years since the signing of the Oslo Accords, the PA has failed to provide Palestinians with a sense of political and personal security. The ideas promoted under the leadership of Abbas—a two-state solution, nonviolent resistance, and diplomacy—have become an anathema to many Palestinians who believe Abbas's adherence to nonviolent resistance has failed to improve their personal circumstances, let alone establish an independent Palestinian state. They view the PA as collaborating with Israel instead of protecting them from it.
the west bank has been failed by the condoning of the illegal settlements and exploitation of water management . Not to mention violence illegal evictions etc.
Of course also failed by the terrorists who operated amongst them.
I will just mention. 41% now " support hamas " by this poll in the westbank
And 40% of Israelis are now condoning illegal settlements.....
Israeli extremists are working to make settlements in the West Bank irreversible, analysts fear.
www.bbc.com
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June survey by the Pew Research Center suggested that
40% of Israelis believed settlements made the country safer, up from 27% in 2013. Meanwhile, 35% of people polled said that the settlements hurt Israel’s security, down from 42%.
Mr Mizrahi worries that Jewish extremists in the West Bank are exacerbating an already tense and volatile situation, making it harder than ever to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. “I think it’s extremely dangerous,” he says. “It’s increasing the hate on both sides.”
Since the outbreak of the war, settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank has surged.
It had already been on the rise, but in the past 10 months
the UN has documented around 1,270 attacks,
compared with 856 in all of 2022.
According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, during the same period Israeli settler harassment has forced Palestinians out of
at least 18 villages in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory between Israel and Jordan that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and has been occupied ever since.
Between 7 October and August 2024, 589 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank – at least 570 by Israeli forces and at least 11 by settlers,
according to the UN. They include some said to have been planning attacks as well as unarmed civilians. In the same period, Palestinians killed five settlers and nine members of Israel’s security forces.
www.theguardian.com
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