but consider what it has done in a small territory housing 2.2 million people, half of whom are children and by which of israel's estimate, only 30,000 are hamas fighters. a "wall street journal" analysis of israel's bombing campaign notes that by mid december, nearly 70% of gaza's 439,000 homes and half its buildings have been damaged or destroyed. much of the water, communications and healthcare infrastructure that made gaza function is beyond repair. of gaza's 36 hospitals, only eight can still accept patients. u.n. monitor's reports that more than two-thirds of all schools have been damaged as have several churches and over 100 mosques. in roughly two months, israel caused more than destruction in gaza than the battle of aleppo and syria or the raising of