A senior member of Hamas has said the Palestinian militant group was surprised by Americaβs reaction to recent violence in Gaza, suggesting the US could enter the fight after it sent thousands of troops and a pair of aircraft carriers to the region.
In an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday, Ali Barakeh, a member of Hamasβ political leadership based in Lebanon, said the group βdidnβt expect this much of a responseβ from the US.
βAn Israeli response? Yes, we expected that,βΒ he said.Β βBut what weβre seeing now is the entrance of the US into the battle, and this we didnβt count on.β
