A new poll shows the US public support for Israel has decreased with the majority of Americans backing a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under the brutal Israeli offensive since October 7.
Results of a poll by Reuters and Ipsos revealed on Wednesday that more than two-thirds of Americans back a ceasefire in the war-torn coastal sliver and that their support for Israel has eroded by ten points since the previous month.
The two-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, gathered responses from just over 1,000 respondents, 32 percent of whom said that “the US should support Israel” when asked about the role of the United States in the ongoing war in Gaza.
That was down from 41 percent who said the US should support Israel in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted October 12-13, almost a week after Israel unleashed a brutal war on the impoverished enclave.
Around 68 percent of respondents in the new poll said they agreed with a statement that “Israel should call a ceasefire and try to negotiate.”
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long suppression and devastation against Palestinians.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, 11,500 Palestinians, including 4,630 children and 3,130 women, have been killed and more than 29,000 others injured in the Israeli strikes.
“The Gaza crisis has sparked an international outcry that has focused in recent days on the collapsing medical infrastructure in the crowded coastal enclave. Palestinians trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital were digging a mass grave on Tuesday to bury patients who died under Israeli encirclement,” read the Reuters report that announced the polling results.
Despite numerous calls from across the world for a ceasefire to prevent further bloodshed in Gaza, Israel has so far rejected any talk of implementing longer pauses or a ceasefire.
Earlier, Karim Khan, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), warned that his office is collecting evidence that could result in an international investigation against Israel’s political and military leaders, as the occupying entity keeps pounding almost all areas and facilities of the blockaded territory, including hospitals, schools and residential buildings.
Israel, like the United States, is not a member of the ICC. It refused to cooperate with the court in 2021 over the war crimes investigation into the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
