American voters’ opposition to additional military aid to Israel is the highest it’s been since late 2023, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
In the poll, 32 percent of respondents said they are for “the United States sending more military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war with Hamas,” while 60 percent said they were against additional aid.
“This is the highest level of opposition and lowest level of support for the United States sending more military aid to Israel since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters on November 2, 2023, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023,” the pollster wrote.
The poll came as famine was officially declared in parts of Gaza for the first time, with humanitarian workers warning that mass starvation is inevitable without rapid interventions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also approved a plan to expand military operations in Gaza City, a move that has drawn a global outcry but support from President Trump.
The White House said Trump met on Wednesday with advisors and Israeli officials to discuss postwar plans for Gaza. Qatar and Egypt are criticizing Israel for not responding to a ceasefire proposal, which Hamas accepted.
The Quinnipiac poll took place from Aug. 21 to 25, featuring 1,220 self-identified registered voters and plus or minus 3.4 percentage points as its margin of sampling error.
This week has continued to see the death toll rise in Gaza.
An Israeli strike that left five Palestinian journalists in Gaza dead on Monday was one of the deadliest events for media officials working in Israel’s war in the territory, increasing the toll to nearly 200 reporters killed in almost two years of fighting.
The Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis killed at least 20 people in total, in an apparent “double tap” attack that also killed healthcare workers responding to the initial strike.
Fifty percent of American voters in the Quinnipiac poll also said “Israel is committing genocide” in Gaza, while 35 percent said it’s not.
