The following data comes from a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) on 8–11 March 2017. The results are based on a survey of 1,270 men and women from the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The complete poll, the 63d in a series, can be found at www.pcpsr.org.
1. Do you see benefit or harm to reconciliation in the holding of these [municipal] elections in 5/2017?
| Total | West Bank | Gaza Strip | |
| 1) Benefit | 34.7% | 31.2% | 40.4% |
| 2) Harm | 22.2% | 19.4% | 26.8% |
| 3) Neither benefit nor harm | 34.4% | 38.5% | 27.6% |
| 4) Don’t know/Not applicable | 8.8% | 10.9% | 5.2% |
2. Hamas announced its decision not to participate in these local elections. In your view, is Hamas justified or unjustified in boycotting these elections?
| Total | West Bank | Gaza Strip | |
| 1) Justified | 31.4% | 27.7% | 37.5% |
| 2) Unjustified | 48.7% | 48.2% | 49.5% |
| 3) Don’t know/Not applicable | 20.0% | 24.2% | 13.0% |
3. More than 2 months since his inauguration, what is your expectation of the Trump admin.’s impact on future Palestinian-Israeli relations?
| Total | West Bank | Gaza Strip | |
| 1) Will push toward return to the peace process | 8.6% | 6.3% | 12.4% |
| 2) Things will remain as they were under Obama | 33.3% | 38.3% | 25.0% |
| 3) Will lead to greater Palestinian diplomatic and political confrontations against Israel | 10.6% | 6.7% | 17.2% |
| 4) Will lead to greater Palestinian popular and perhaps armed confrontations due to settlement expansion | 37.7% | 37.8% | 37.4% |
| 5) Other | 2.1% | 2.3% | 1.9% |
| 6) Don’t know/Not applicable | 7.7% | 8.7% | 6.1% |
4. If the Trump admin. called upon the Palestinians and Israelis to return to negotiations within a 2-state solution framework, but without any preconditions, should the Palestinian side accept the invitation and return to negotiations?
| Total | West Bank | Gaza Strip | |
| 1) Yes | 31.0% | 30.8% | 31.5% |
| 2) No | 57.5% | 60.6% | 52.4% |
| 3) Not sure | 7.2% | 4.7% | 11.4% |
| 4) Don’t know/Not applicable | 4.2% | 3.9% | 4.6% |
5. The Gaza Strip suffers from a permanent crisis of electricity shortages, to which various actors contribute. Who, in your view, is the actor most responsible for the continuation of this crisis?
| Total | West Bank | Gaza Strip | |
| 1) PA/Pres. Abbas | 23.1% | 18.3% | 30.7% |
| 2) [Israel’s] occupation | 35.0% | 43.9% | 20.4% |
| 3) Hamas govt./ Ismail Haniyeh | 19.6% | 13.4% | 29.7% |
| 4) Egypt | 7.6% | 10.7% | 2.5% |
| 5) Hamas govt./PA | 2.7% | 1.0% | 5.5% |
| 6) GEDCO | 1.7% | 0.0% | 4.4% |
| 7) Other | 4.4% | 4.1% | 4.8% |
| 8) Don’t know/Not applicable | 6.0% | 8.4% | 2.0% |