PRESS RELEASE 

+++Overwhelming Palestinian majority wants to regularly elect their party leadership+++
+++Large majority see the services provided by UNRWA as essential+++
+++Two-State Solution still the preferred solution of Palestinians+++
 

The poll showed that 74.9% of Palestinians say it is important that members of political parties elect their party leadership on a regular basis. At the same time, Palestinians continue to express low levels of trust in political parties and factions, with 44.7% saying they do not trust any political faction at all. These are some of the findings of an opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC), in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

There is a strong consensus among Palestinians that the services provided by UNRWA are important for Palestinians. Concerning the issue of education, 85% of Palestinians claim that it was very important for UNRWA to provide services, with an additional 12.5% saying they were at least somewhat important. Similar tendencies can be seen regarding UNRWA’s health services, see as very important by 86.8%.

A total of 39.3% of respondents still see the two-state solution as the best method to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the percentage of those who prefer the two-state solution in the Gaza Strip considerably higher (46.4%) than in the West Bank (34.5%). Furthermore, 28.8% said they preferred the bi-national state over all of historical Palestine. 

Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC), in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) regularly conduct public opinion polls that focus on recent socio-political developments in the occupied Palestinian territories and include trend questions to highlight long-term developments. The current poll (No. 95) was conducted in August in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with a randomly selected sample of 1200 Palestinians over the age of 18 in face-to-face interviews. 

Please find the full results of the poll attached.