Another four officers were sentenced to three months in prison.
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To carry out the poll, 1,270 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were interviewed face to face in 127 randomly selected locations from September 17 to 19.
Findings indicate a decline in the level of support for the two-state solution.
Perhaps more worrying from a sentiment point of view is that almost two-thirds of those surveyed (65 percent) said they did not believe the two-state solution was any longer practical because of Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Hamas forces have in the past also captured a number of Israeli intelligence drones to get data on the Gaza Strip.
While armed action was the preferred method to a state, 29 percent of Palestinians surveyed think negotiations is the most effective way to achieve a state and 24 percent favor popular nonviolent resistance.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has recently confided in western diplomats that he has no intention of making dramatic announcements, such as the dismantlement of the Palestinian Authority or the abrogation of the Oslo Accords, in his upcoming United Nations speech, Haaretz reported Sunday. If elections were finally held again, over one-third said they would vote for jihadi group Hamas to rule Palestinian lands.
However, the survey showed 78 percent of Palestinians think the chances of getting their own state in the next five years are “slim to non-existent”.
The polling institute relayed common biases in its questions that are popular among Palestinians, such as describing Israeli residents of the disputed territories as “settlers” and referring to the West Bank as an “occupied” Palestinian territory.
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Last March, before Israeli elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there would never be a Palestinian state.
