As yesterday’s Pew Research poll showed, Palestinians are the Muslim world’s biggest supporters of Bin Laden.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Some two dozen Palestinians gathered in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pay tribute to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

About 25 people holding pictures and posters of bin Laden rallied outside a Gaza City university. The crowd included al-Qaida sympathizers as well as students who said they opposed bin Laden’s ideology, but were angry at the U.S. for killing him and consider him a martyr.

Hamas police did not interfere in the demonstration.

On Monday, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Gaza’s Hamas government, condemned the U.S. operation against bin Laden, whom he hailed as a “Muslim and Arab warrior.