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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Poll of Palestinians: Correct to Cease Security Coordination Despite It Encouraging Annexation and Hurting Palestinians

Poll of Palestinians: Correct to Cease Security Coordination Despite It
Encouraging Annexation and Hurting Palestinians
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: In this poll 55.5% of Palestinians support ceasing
security coordination while 61.6% think the move will have either no effect
or ENCOURAGE Israel to annex (only 28.1% think the move impedes annexation)
and this while 48.7% believe that ending the security and civil coordination
will negatively affect the restriction of the spread of corona epidemic
(Covid-19).

PCPO Poll No. 205
June 24, 2020
The latest poll on the Palestinian public opinion prepared by Dr. Nabil
Kukali revealed the following:

(55.5%) believe that the decision of the Palestinian Authority to end the
security and civil coordination with Israel was a right decision, (49.1 %)
are among the residents of the West Bank, and (65 %) residents of Gaza
Strip.
(52.3%) believe that the cessation of the security and civil coordination
with Israel will negatively affect the economic and living conditions of the
Palestinian people.
(48.7%) believe that ending the security and civil coordination will
negatively affect the restriction of the spread of corona epidemic
(Covid-19). .

Beit Sahour –Public Relations’ Section:

The latest poll prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali and conducted by the
Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (www.pcpo.org) during the period from
June 14-22, 2020 covered a random sample of (1250) Palestinian respondents
representing the various demographic specimens of Palestinians (18 years and
above) living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. It
revealed that (55.5 %) of the Palestinian public believe that the decision
of the Palestinian Authority to end the security and civil coordination with
Israel was a right decision.

Dr. Nabil Kukali, President and founder of the Palestinian Center for Public
Opinion, said that the suspension of the security and civil coordination
came as response to the Israeli position, that is supported by President
Tramp to annex vast regions of the West Bank that makes up around (30 %) of
the area of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley region, the region
north of the Dead Sea and the settlements to its sovereignty, the matter
that the Palestinians consider as ultimate undermining of the opportunity to
establish their own independent state.

Dr. Kukali further added that the poll results unveil that there is a fear
of deterioration of the economic and living conditions in the Palestinian
Territories as well as the mutual cooperation in restricting the spread of
the corona-virus (COVID-19).

Dr. Kukali said the details of the key results of this poll are as follows:

Cessation of the Coordination as a Right Decision
(55.5 %) of the Palestinian public believe that the decision of the
Palestinian Authority to end the security and civil coordination with Israel
was a right decision; (49.1 %) of them are residents of the West Bank, and
(65 %) residents of Gaza Strip, whilst (44.5 %) of the Palestinians, (50.9
%) of them in the West Bank and (35 %) in Gaza Strip, believe that the
decision was wrong.

The results in detail further reveal that the governorates with the positive
attitude towards the decision are in the West Bank in the following order:
Al-Bireh & Ramallah (81.8 %), Jerusalem (62.8 %), Jericho (55.6 %), Hebron
(52.9 %), Salfit (52.2 %), Nablus (43.3 %), Toubas (37.5 %), Toulkarem (37.3
%), Jenin (34 %), Qalqilia (27.8 %) and Bethlehem with (15.9 %) the least
positive attitude.

On the other hand, the governorates with the negative attitude towards the
decision are in the West Bank in the following order: Bethlehem (84.1 %),
followed by Qalqilia (72.2 %), Jenin
(66 %), Toulkarem (62.7 %), Toubas (62.5 %), Salfit (47.8 %), Nablus (56.6
%), Hebron (47.1 %), Jericho (44.4 %), Jerusalem (37.2 %) and Ramallah (18.8
%).

In Gaza Strip, the governorates with the positive attitude towards the PA
decision are in the following order: Rafah (78.1 %), followed by Deir
al-Balah (75.9 %), Gaza City (63.9 %), Khan Younis (61.1 %) and North Gaza
(54.9 %).

Cessation of the Coordination and the Economic Situation
Responding to the question:” Do you think that the cessation of the security
and civil coordination with Israel will improve the economic and living
conditions of the Palestinian people or rather worsen them ?, (18.7 %) said
“will improve them”, (52.3 %) “will worsen them”, (15.8 %) “will have no
effect” and (13.2 %) said “I don’t know”.

Cessation of the Coordination and the Restriction of Corona-virus (COVID-19)
With regard to the question:” In view of the coordination between the
Palestinian Authority and Israel on restricting COVID-19, do you think that
ending the security and civil coordination between them would negatively
affect this COVID-19 coordination, or not ?, (48.7 %) said “will negatively
affect”, (21.7 %) said “will remain unchanged” and (29.6 %) have no opinion.

Will the Cessation of the Coordination impede the Annexation of Jordan
Valley and the Settlements ?
In respect of the question:” Some people in the Palestinian Territories
believe that ending the security and civil coordination between the PA and
Israel will impede the Israeli annexation of vast areas of the West Bank
(Jordan Valley and the settlements) by Israel, while others believe that it
will boost the annexation of these areas by Israel. Which of these two
opinions is closer to yours ?, “(28.1 %) said “it will impede Israel”, (35.1
%) “it will encourage Israel to annex these areas”, (26.5 %) “the decision
of the PA will have no effect on the annexation” and (10.3 %) said “I don’t
know”.

Seriousness of the Palestinian Authority
Responding to the question:”Up to which extent do you believe that the PA
will adhere to its decision of terminating the security and civil
coordination with Israel ?”, (12.5 %) said “to a great extent”, (37 %) “to a
fair extent”, (35.3 %) “to a little extent” and (15.2 %) have no opinion.

The Need for Civil Coordination
With respect of the question addressed to the West Bank respondents:”If you
were in need for a coordination or for getting a job, or going to a hospital
in Israel, would you go to the bureaus of the Israeli civil administration
or to the Palestinian liaison bureaus “, (22 %) said “I would go to the
bureaus of the Israeli civil administration”, whilst (56.6 %) said they
“would go to the Palestinian liaison bureaus”, and (21.4 %) said “ I don’t
know”.

Methodology of the Survey Study in the Palestinian Territories
Dr. Nabil Kukali, said that all interviews of this survey were conducted
inside the respondents' homes. The choices were randomly taken in accordance
with a long experienced methodology applied by PCPO from a total of (180)
sites, (135) are from the West Bank and (45) from Gaza Strip.

Dr. Kukali has further indicated that the margin of error was (+/-2.77 %) at
a significance level of (95.0%). He added that the rate of the female
respondents in this survey was (49.6%) against (50.4%) male respondents. The
sample allotment with respect to the residential areas was as follows: (63.0
%) in the West Bank, incl. Eastern Jerusalem and (37.0 %) in Gaza Strip. The
average age of the respondents was (31.5) years.

For following up the most recent polls of the Palestinian Center for Public
Opinion, please revert to our website: www.pcpo.org

Contact Person: Dr. Nabil Kukali Tel: +970 2 277 4846, Fax: +970 2 277 4892
Mobile: +970 599 726 878
P.O. Box 15, Beit Sahour - Palestine
Email: dr.kukali@pcpo.org

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