Lack of political progress, along with hightened violence in the Gaza Strip in early March, prompt a significant increase in Hamas’s popularity among Palestinians.
Poll finds half of all Palestinians support a two state solution; less than 4% support attacks against Israeli civilians as the best means to end occupation.
Poll also finds the majority of Palestinians support President Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to end the occupation, and do not think that Hamas has a feasible alternative to end the Israeli occupation.
Poll finds only 25.6% of Palestinians are opposed to a political agreement based on the two-state vision, 79.9% support PA participation in the Annapolis peace summit.
The August edition of the Ramallah-based Near East Consulting's monthly bulletin on Palestinian perceptions towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre poll finds Palestinians prefer the Western-backed government of Salam Fayyad to the dismissed cabinet of Hamas' Ismail Haniya.
The new survey finds that a majority of Palestinians from both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would participate in elections and would vote for Fatah representatives in both presidential and legislative elections.
