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49% of Israelis want to hold off on Gaza invasion
Reuters:
Almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to
a poll published on Friday, in what may indicate a dip in support for the
planned next stage of the counter-offensive against Hamas militants holding
some 200 hostages.
Israel
vowed to annihilate Hamas in response to the Palestinian Islamists’ killing and
kidnapping spree in its southern communities on 7 October, and has been
stepping up tank and infantry raids in concert with heavy shelling of the
enclave.
Asked if
the military should immediately escalate to a large-scale ground offensive, 29%
of Israelis agreed while 49% said “it would be better to wait” and 22% were
undecided, the poll published in the Maariv newspaper said.
The daily said the results contrasted with its 10
October poll that found 65% support for a major ground offensive.
“From a
breakdown of the answers, it emerges that there is no division in accordance
with political camp or demographics, and that it is almost certain that the
developments on the matter of the hostages, which is now topping the agenda,
have had a great impact on this shift (in opinion),” Maariv wrote.
Maariv
polled a representative sample of 522 adult Israelis. The margin of error was
4.3%, the newspaper said.
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