Hamas "shocked" by global opposition to its power | International News | Reuters.com

Hamas "shocked" by global opposition to its power | International News | Reuters.com: "GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Palestinian government, said on Thursday it could never have imagined the vast international pressure it would come under after winning democratic elections earlier this year.

In a candid article published in the Palestinian press, Ahmed Youssef, a political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said the group had been shocked by the strength of opposition to its electoral victory.

'It went beyond all imagination,' wrote Youssef.

'The government ... did not expect the pressures and the siege imposed on our people would be so harsh, so strong and so large in scale.'" Read complete post here.