Reach for that box of facial tissues and prepare to squirt some saline, as Hamas admits they might be in a spot of bother: Hamas’ Gaza faces bleak times.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hani and Miriam’s two-year-old son cried when fighting between Hamas and Fatah raged outside the family’s Gaza City apartment, bullets coming through the windows. They told him the noise was just a party and the mortar blasts were the sound of frolicking elephants.

Two weeks later, with Hamas firmly in control of Gaza, the couple fear they won’t be able to shield the boy and his newborn sister from the heightened isolation and poverty that seem sure to come.

Hamas has moved to restore law and order, collecting weapons, directing traffic and enforcing municipal codes at vegetable stands. But with Israel, its sworn enemy, in control of its borders, coastline and airspace — and with Fatah ignoring its pleas for a return to negotiations — even Hamas acknowledges it won’t be able to go it alone in Gaza.

I don’t get it. They’re even enforcing the vegetable stand codes! Why is everyone always so negative about Hamas?

Sheesh. You’d think they were murdering people or something.

Sob.