66% of UK population consider Hamas a terrorist organisation, poll shows

Two-thirds of the UK population (66%) consider Hamas is a terrorist organisation, while 6% believe it is not, a new poll has shown.

But Britons are divided on how the UK has approached the Middle East crisis sparked by the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel of October 7th.

One in five Britons feels the UK should be more critical towards Israel than it has been in the wake of the conflict, the YouGov poll has found.

While 16 per cent believe the government should be more supportive to Israel, and nearly a quarter say the balance is “about right.”

More than four in 10 participants (44%) believe that Israel does not try to minimise harm to civilians when it makes strikes in Gaza.

The You Gov poll of 3,800 adults showed Labour voters are “significantly more likely” than Conservative voters to say the UK should be more critical towards Israel – 39% compared to 11%.

Tory voters were found to be almost twice as likely than their Labour counterparts to say the UK should be more supportive towards Israel than it has been – 23% to 12%.

But the poll also showed that the majority of Labour and Tory voters would favour a stance that helped “both” Israel and the Palestinians.

The poll was conducted last weekend.