NEW YORK – A majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip, in a pronounced shift from November, according to a new poll released by Gallup on March 27.
In a survey conducted from March 1 to 20, 55 per cent of US adults said they disapproved of Israel’s military actions – a jump of 10 percentage points from four months earlier, Gallup found.
Americans’ approval of Israel’s conduct in the war dropped by an even starker margin, from 50 per cent in November, a month after the war began, to 36 per cent in March, while the proportion of Americans who said they had no opinion on the subject rose to 9 per cent from 4 per cent.
The findings are the latest evidence of growing American discontent with Israel over the course of five months in which it has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including nearly 14,000 children, according to local health officials and the United Nations.
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