‘Collective punishment is always wrong, but certainly if there is a claim that the citizens of Gaza are really supportive of this government — they’re really not,’ one of its authors told The Messenger
Less than one-quarter of residents of the the Gaza Strip said they would vote for Hamas if given the opportunity, and more than two-thirds said they have little or no trust in the terrorist organization, according to a poll that was conducted just one day before the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
The survey of 400 Gaza residents should dispel the notion that the general population supports Hamas, and the brutal assault on southern Israel that left 1,400 people dead, said Michael Robbins, the director and co-principal investigator at Arab Barometer, which conducted the poll.
“There is this idea that perhaps Gazans are complicit,” Robbins told The Messenger. “Collective punishment is always wrong, but certainly if there is a claim that the citizens of Gaza are really supportive of this government — they’re really not.”..
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