{"id":618175,"date":"2026-09-16T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:14:12","slug":"poll-over-40-of-palestinians-in-west-bank-say-israel-has-no-right-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618175\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Over 40% of Palestinians in West Bank say Israel has no right to exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Palestinians in the West Bank<\/a> believe Israel does not have a right to exist (46%) than those who believe it does (41%), according to a new poll published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The survey, which interviewed 400 Palestinians by phone between June 27 and July 2, with a margin of error of 4.9%, also found that 42% believed it was possible to bring about the end of Israel\u2019s existence, while only 32% said it was impossible.<\/p>\n

More than a quarter (27%) said they favored a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/a>, while 22% said they supported a single bi-national state with full equal rights, and 26% expressed a preference for a single Palestinian state without a Jewish presence. Only 17% said they would like to see a Palestinian state that permitted Jews as residents or citizens.<\/p>\n

Despite a significant portion of Palestinians not recognizing Israel\u2019s right to exist, over half (52%) said they would prefer negotiations as a way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while only 12% said they preferred armed resistance.<\/p>\n

Given that more than half (57%) of the Palestinians polled said they believed violence had failed and that international diplomatic efforts were more fruitful, it follows that 40% of those polled said Hamas should disarm, and the majority preferred that Hamas not govern the Gaza Strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most popular choice for the administration of the Strip is the current US-backed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), which was selected by 32% of respondents. An additional 21% favored the Palestinian Authority (PA), while 21% favored a Fatah-Hamas unity government; only 5% chose Hamas as the preferred sole authority.<\/p>\n

When asked who they thought should replace PA President Mahmoud Abbas, imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was preferred by 34% of those polled, followed by Abbas\u2019s deputy, Hussein al-Sheikh, who received support from just 8% of the respondents.<\/p>\n

Unemployment was the greatest concern among 97% of those polled, while 96% also identified settler violence as a major issue. Fourteen percent reported being direct victims of settler attacks, 22% said they had heard first-hand testimony from someone they knew who had experienced harm, and 33% said they were exposed to cases of settler violence through the media and social networks.<\/p>\n

The majority, 91%, also expressed concern regarding IDF operations in the West Bank, while 60% said they had a low or very low sense of personal security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More Palestinians in the West Bank believe Israel does not have a right to exist (46%) than those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,51,85,46,47,43,2200,17154,77],"class_list":["post-618175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestinians","tag-poll","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}