{"id":314425,"date":"2025-08-28T06:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314425"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:24:47","slug":"76-of-israelis-say-there-are-no-innocents-in-gaza-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314425","title":{"rendered":"76% of Israelis say there are \u2018no innocents\u2019 in Gaza: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A man carries the body of a Palestinian boy killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia on Aug 26, 2025<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Aug 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A new survey indicates that the vast majority of Israelis believe there are \u201cno innocents\u201d in the Gaza Strip, reflecting a rise in extremist views within Israeli society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted by Hebrew University\u2019s aChord Center, found that 76 percent of respondents partially or fully agreed with the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Even among opposition voters, 47 percent fully endorsed the claim, highlighting broad support across political lines.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest that most Israelis accept the government\u2019s framing of Gaza as &#8220;collectively hostile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli researcher Ron Gerlitz described the results of the survey as &#8220;difficult findings&#8221; that indicated attitudes that fed into acceptance of Israel&#8217;s ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings can of course shed light on the enormous number of Palestinian civilians killed in the war in Gaza,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important for me to write that agreeing with &#8216;there are no innocents&#8217; is not the same as &#8216;we need to kill everyone there&#8217;. It&#8217;s not the same thing. But the consciousness of &#8216;there are no innocents&#8217; is the toxic soil that grows dynamics and actions that cause the killing of innocents,&#8221; Gerlitz said.<\/p>\n<p>The survey comes amid rising racist attacks against Palestinians across the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING:<br \/>\n76% of the Jewish Israeli public believe \u201cthere are no innocents in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are &#8220;no innocents&#8221; in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>aChord, a research group linked to Hebrew\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KM5Dz9c8id\">pic.twitter.com\/KM5Dz9c8id<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr Rage (@mrlourage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrlourage\/status\/1960391023986966874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment across the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories had already been growing in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Palestinian bus driver was attacked by a group of Jewish youths shouting &#8220;death to Arabs,&#8221;\u00a0the latest incident in a string of racist attacks on Palestinian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The assault took place on Saturday in\u00a0Petah Tikva, a central district in the occupied territories,\u00a0 Israeli news website<em> Ynet <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to a widely circulated\u00a0online footage of the attack, a young Israeli\u00a0used an emergency hammer to smash\u00a0the\u00a0windshield of the bus beside\u00a0a woman holding a baby before striking\u00a0one of the bus doors.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver, Mohammed Abd al-Hadi, told Ynet the incident happened after he asked the young passengers to stop screaming and vandalizing the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They insulted me and shouted racist sayings like &#8216;Jew &#8211; good; Arab &#8211; son of a bitch&#8217; and &#8216;death to Arabs&#8217;,&#8221; al Hadi\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The Abraham Initiatives, an organization that seeks to tackle violence against Palestinians, says the incidents were &#8220;not exceptional&#8221;, but rather &#8220;part of a dangerous wave of violence and racism against Arab citizens of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This violence is a direct result of ongoing incitement and governmental lawlessness, which allows the attackers to raise their hands against people just because of their origin,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s<em> Haaretz<\/em> newspaper earlier reported that Channel 14 has systematically labeled all Gaza casualties as \u201cterrorists and, on multiple occasions, praised the killing or harming of civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a new investigation by Forensic Architecture (FA), a research group, found that the Israeli military had\u00a0pursued a deliberate strategy of starvation that has pushed Gaza towards famine.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0report\u00a0details how Israel weaponized aid, forcing Palestinians to travel long distances to reach military-run distribution centers in the south of the Strip, while opening fire on the\u00a0same civilians as they sought\u00a0aid.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers documented attacks on civilians, the destruction of infrastructure such as food warehouses, and looting by Israeli-backed gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have killed 51 Palestinians since\u00a0Wednesday morning, including 12 people waiting for aid.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing over 62,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n<p>As Israel continues to close all Gaza border crossings to humanitarian aid since early March, aid agencies have warned of an imminent famine threatening the territory\u2019s 2.4 million residents. In Gaza City alone, more than half a million people are already facing a famine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2025\/08\/27\/753883\/Palestine-Gaza-Israel-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey finds hardening Israeli attitudes toward Palestinians. 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