{"id":296297,"date":"2024-10-08T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296297"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:26:49","slug":"more-than-one-third-of-israelis-think-hamas-won-the-war-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296297","title":{"rendered":"More than one-third of Israelis think Hamas won the war, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle East Eye.net \u2013 Oct 7, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Only 27 percent of Israelis<\/a> think their government has defeated Hamas in its onslaught on the Gaza Strip that started a year ago, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted by Israel’s national broadcaster KAN News <\/a>and the Kantar Institute, interviewed a sample of 653 Israelis.<\/p>\n

The results show that 35 percent think Israel has lost the war against Hamas, while the rest are unsure.<\/p>\n

Asked if they would be willing to move to one of the communities in southern Israel close to Gaza after the war ends, only 14 percent said they would consider living there, while 86 percent said they were unwilling.<\/p>\n

Former and current\u00a0Israeli\u00a0military officials have also said they are losing the\u00a0war on Gaza\u00a0and Hamas is winning.<\/p>\n

Major-General Gadi Shamni, a former commander of the Israeli military’s Gaza division, said in an interview with The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0last month that\u00a0Hamas was winning the war, while Israel was losing, “and in a big way”.<\/p>\n

He said the military capabilities of Hamas have undeniably been reduced, but the group still maintains control over Gaza.<\/p>\n

Hamas members have been retaking towns across Gaza \u201c15 minutes\u201d after Israeli troops withdrew from them, he added.<\/p>\n

A senior defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, separately told\u00a0ABC News<\/a>\u00a0in September: “We are losing the war, we are losing deterrence, we are losing the hostages.”<\/p>\n

Monday marks one year since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, which followed a massive attack by Hamas-led fighters in southern Israel.<\/p>\n

The Hamas attack killed 1,139 people, most of them civilians, and more than 250 were taken into Gaza as captives, 97 of whom are believed to be still in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The subsequent and ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has killed nearly 42,000 people, the majority of them women and children, according to UN<\/a> figures.<\/p>\n

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas on 7 October, was assassinated in Tehran in July. His successor, Yahya Sinwar, is believed to be in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Multiple ceasefire proposals have been rejected by Israel over the past year, including a UN Security Council resolution<\/a>, as Israel insists on eliminating Hamas rather than reaching a political end to the conflict.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year after Oct 7, 2023, only 27 percent of Israelis believe they are winning the war against Hamas. While a former commander of Israel’s Gaza division, said in an interview last month that Hamas was winning the war, and Israel was losing, “and in a big way”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296298,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297\/revisions\/296298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}