The vast majority of Palestinians support Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre and do not think the terror group has committed war crimes during its ongoing war with the Jewish state, according to a new poll.
The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research found in its latest public opinion poll of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank that a striking 72 percent of respondents said Hamas made a “correct” decision to launch its onslaught against Israel.
During the invasion, Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 240 others as hostages, taking them back to Gaza. Hamas’ brutality during the pogrom — which included documented cases of rampant rape and other sexual violence, torture, and beheadings — shocked the world.
Despite the gruesome violence, however, only 10 percent of Palestinians think that Hamas has committed war crimes during the current war, according to the poll. When asked if the terror group, which rules Gaza, was guilty of atrocities “such as the killing of women and children in their homes,” just 16 percent of respondents in Gaza and 1 percent in the West Bank said yes.Just think: only 1% of Palestinians in the West Bank think that Hamas’ murders of women and children in their homes constituted a “war crime.” Curiously, in the Strip itself 16% of the residents were willing to describe those murders as a “war crime” — no doubt because of their own anger at Hamas for its corruption, mismanagement and, especially, for bringing down the wrath of the IDF on Gaza.