74% of Israelis support ending the Gaza war as part of a prisoner exchange deal.

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Arab Sea - Follow-ups: A poll showed on Monday that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support ending the war on the Gaza Strip as part of a prisoner exchange deal. This poll was conducted by the "Agham" Research Institute (private) at a time when Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza for nearly 23 months. The Hebrew news website "Walla" said that 74 percent of Israelis (the sample) said they support ending the war on Gaza as part of a prisoner exchange deal, while 26 percent rejected it. With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to stop it. The Israeli genocide has left 62,744 martyrs and 158,259 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and a famine that killed 300 Palestinians, including 117 children, as of Monday. Twenty-six percent considered that the fighting in Gaza should continue even if it meant endangering the lives of Israeli prisoners. Days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu's government decided to destroy and occupy both Gaza City and the central region, which sparked sharp local criticism for fear for the lives of the prisoners. Tel Aviv estimates that there are 50 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, 20 of whom are alive, while more than 10,800 Palestinians are languishing in its prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect, which has claimed the lives of many of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.