ICM Poll:

40% of British Muslims want Sharia in the UK

20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 bombers
Pew Research (2010):

82% of Egyptian Muslims favor stoning adulterers

70% of Jordanian Muslims favor stoning adulterers

42% of Indonesian Muslims favor stoning adulterers

82% of Pakistanis favor stoning adulterers

56% of Nigerian Muslims favor stoning adulterers
WZB Berlin Social Science Center:

65%% of Muslims in Europe say Sharia is more important than the law of the country they live in.
Pew Global (2006)

68% of Palestinian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.

43% of Nigerian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.

38% of Lebanese Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.

15% of Egyptian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.

Pew Research (2013):

Only 57% of Muslims worldwide disapprove of al-Qaeda.

Only 51% disapprove of the Taliban.

13% support both groups and 1 in 4 refuse to say.
Wenzel Strategies (2012):

58% of Muslim-Americans believe criticism of Islam or Muhammad is not protected free speech under the First Amendment.

45% believe mockers of Islam should face criminal charges (38% said they should not).

12% of Muslim-Americans believe blaspheming Islam should be punishable by death.

43% of Muslim-Americans believe people of other faiths have no right to evangelize Muslims.

32% of Muslims in America believe that Sharia should be the supreme law of the land.

“War doesn't bring solution, except more war, more hatred, more agony, more destruction. So, let's choose peace and resolve this issue politically," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva.

The U.S. and some Middle East countries are trying to negotiate a new cease-fire to halt the fighting, perhaps for 30 days, to allow the release of more hostages and the release of jailed Palestinians held by Israel. About 100 hostages held by Hamas and 240 Palestinians jailed by Israel were freed in a late November week-long cease-fire.

But no new cease-fire agreement has been reached.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N.’s Palestinian relief agency, said the Khan Younis compound had been clearly marked as a U.N. facility, and its coordinates had been shared with Israeli authorities.

The head of the World Health Organization called for a cease-fire to the conflict in an address to the organization’s governing body Thursday, during which he described the conditions in Gaza as “hellish.”

"Persistent attacks on civilian sites in Khan Younis are utterly unacceptable and must stop immediately," White said. "People are being killed and injured. As fighting intensifies around hospitals and shelters hosting the displaced, people are trapped inside, and lifesaving operations are impeded."

The United States, which has been a key Israeli ally in its war against Hamas, condemned the training center attack.

State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said, "You've heard me say it before, you've heard [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] say it before, but civilians must be protected, and the protected nature of U.N. facilities must be respected. And humanitarian workers must be protected so that they can continue providing civilians with the life-saving humanitarian assistance that they need."

Meanwhile, the U.S. government has created a channel with Israel to discuss concerns about incidents in Gaza in which civilians have been killed or wounded by Israeli attacks, and civilian infrastructure has been targeted, according to a Thursday report by Reuters.

The channel was established after a meeting earlier this month between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israel’s war Cabinet.

A senior U.N. official called Thursday for "every measure" to be taken to protect civilians, following the Wednesday attack at the Khan Younis training center, where thousands of displaced Palestinians have been staying.

The U.N.’s White said the situation in Khan Younis shows a "consistent failure to uphold the fundamental principles of humanitarian law."