Two thirds of Israelis don't expect peace with Palestinians

Two thirds of Israelis don't expect peace with Palestinians
More than two out of three Israelis do not believe there will ever be a peace deal with Palestinians with the West Bank still occupied and Gaza regularly bombed.
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02 October, 2016
Two-thirds of Israelis do not believe there will be peace with Palestinians [Getty]
Almost two-thirds of Israelis believe there will never be a peace agreement with the Palestinians, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Sunday.

Sixty-four percent of the 646 Israeli respondents questioned said a peace accord would never be reached, in the survey conducted by the Project HaMidgam institute for the Walla news website.

Twenty-four percent believed an accord was possible but that it would take longer than five years to achieve, while four percent thought it could be attained within five years.

The remaining eight percent were undecided in the poll, whose margin of error was not published.

The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has been comatose since the collapse of a US-led initiative in April 2014.

The West Bank continues to be occupied by Israel and Gaza regularly bombed with scores of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops this year.