Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah will crush Islamic Hamas movement if parliamentary elections are held now in the Palestinian territories, a poll found out on Monday.

The poll, conducted by Jerusalem Media and Communication Center(JMCC), said that Fatah will get 38.5 percent of the votes while Hamas will get 18.8 percent. The rest of the ballots will go to other less-influential group.

Abbas, who is locked in tough power struggle with Hamas, plans to call for elections by January 2010. In the past polling in 2006,Hamas defeated the long-dominant Fatah and a year later the Islamic movement seized control of Gaza by force.

The JMCC made the survey on a sample of 1199 people in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Fatah-ruled West Bank between June 20 and 24 with a margin of error of 3 percent.

Abbas also came before deposed Hamas' Premier Ismail Haneya as 17.8 percent said they trust Abbas and 14.8 percent said they are confident of Haneya.

In general, 30.4 percent of the surveyed people don't trust any Palestinian political or armed group.

The majority of the sample, 52.1 percent, said that the final round of reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah, started Sunday in Egypt, will fail. Only 37 percent saw the opposite.

The two movements have been unable to bridge their gaps, which prevent the foundation of a unity government restoring political unity to the Palestinian territories.

According to the survey, those responsible for blocking the national dialogue were Israel (26.6 percent), Hamas (23.5 percent)and Fatah (15.5) in order.

(Xinhua News Agency June 30, 2009)