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As Israel fights to destroy Hamas, the group's popularity surges among Palestinians
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https://www.npr.org/2023/12/21/1217758546/hamas-support-palestinians-west-bank
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“Hamas made the most important action against Israel since its existence,” says Nihad Abughosh, a Palestinian journalist and political analyst, who describes himself as a secular moderate.
During more than two weeks of interviews in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, dozens of people told NPR they don’t accept evidence that Hamas targeted and killed civilians.
Fadi Quran, a West Bank activist and organizer who works for the progressive advocacy group Avaaz, says he is personally troubled by accounts of Hamas violence against women and children.
A previous poll conducted by the group Arab World for Research and Development in late October and early November found 68% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
In November, Israel agreed to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, many of them held without criminal charges, in exchange for Hamas freeing some of the hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attack.
Indeed this view — that Palestinians cannot co-exist with the state of Israel — was voiced to NPR again and again in the West Bank by shopkeepers, laborers, taxi drivers, farmers and government officials.
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