A Fox News national survey released Thursday found that a plurality of registered voters want the United States to do more to help Ukraine, while most say the current U.S. approach to Israel is appropriate. The poll also recorded a record-high share of respondents expressing sympathy for the Palestinians and revealed divided views on responsibility for the famine in Gaza.

The survey showed 39% of voters say the U.S. should be doing more to help Ukraine, versus 29% who say it should do less; 31% said current efforts are adequate. On the Israel-Hamas war, 55% of voters expressed support for Israel while 41% said they support the Palestinians — an increase of 9 percentage points since March and 23 points since October 2023, shortly after Hamas’s attacks.

Support for the Palestinians rose across demographic and partisan lines, with particularly strong backing from voters under 30 (67%), very liberal respondents (67%), Democrats (59%) and nonwhite voters (55%). Support for Israel has been more stable, the poll found, peaking at 68% in October 2023 and registering 55% in the current survey.

Voters were mixed on whether U.S. backing of Israel is appropriate. Forty-three percent said U.S. support is about right, 35% said the U.S. is too supportive and 21% called it not supportive enough. Views split sharply by party: half of Democrats view U.S. backing as too supportive, about six in 10 Republicans say the backing is about right, and independents are divided with 39% saying too supportive, 34% saying about right and 27% saying not enough.

On responsibility for the famine in Gaza, 80% of voters said Hamas was very or somewhat responsible, while 68% said Israel was very or somewhat responsible. Democrats attributed responsibility to each party at nearly equal rates (81% Israel, 78% Hamas). Republicans were more likely to blame Hamas (85%) than Israel (57%), and independents also blamed Hamas by a larger margin (71% Hamas, 64% Israel).

The uptick in support for increased assistance to Ukraine represents a reversal from a year ago, when voters favored doing less by a substantial margin. The current shift is driven largely by Democrats, whose support for more aid rose 30 points, and independents, up 18 points; Republicans showed movement toward viewing current levels as appropriate, up 19 points.

The poll noted President Donald Trump has recently spoken with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to broker a peace deal, efforts that had not produced a breakthrough at the time of the survey. Trump’s job ratings on foreign policy topics were underwater: 40% approved of his handling of Ukraine and 36% approved on Russia, while 59% and 62% disapproved of his handling of those issues, respectively. Overall job approval in the survey was 46% approve to 54% disapprove.

Conducted Sept. 6-9, 2025, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), the Fox News poll interviewed 1,004 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents were reached by live interviewers on landlines and cellphones or completed the survey online after receiving a text. The full-sample margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points; sampling error for subgroups is higher. The poll’s release notes that question wording and order can influence results and that weights were applied to age, race, education and geographic variables to align the sample with registered voter demographics.

The findings come amid sustained international attention on two major conflicts that have shaped U.S. foreign policy debates since 2023. The shifting attitudes toward Palestinian support and renewed appetite for helping Ukraine illustrate evolving public sentiment as humanitarian concerns and geopolitical calculations continue to influence voter preferences ahead of the 2026 election cycle.