If my Sunday school knowledge isn’t failing me, Joshua was leading the Israelite army at the time, and the Lord said Jericho was theirs to conquer. But the Lord made them do this song and dance: “March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
Long story short, it works, the walls collapse, and Joshua and his army go in and “They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys” (except for one prostitute, Rahab, and her family who helped the Israelite spies). Both of these quotes are from Joshua 6. So essentially 58% of Israelis are saying they favor the total extermination of all life in Gaza.
Fun fact: Rahab is included in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1.
I can’t tell if you’re joking but that’s much cooler so I’m choosing to believe it’s true