thanks for spending your spunda morning with us. fareed zakaria gps starts now. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakari coming to you from new york. on today s program, the u.s. and britain strike the houthis in yemen. and the strife between hezbollah and islamrael heats up. is this turning into a war in the west? then, china s eagle eyes were watching across the strait as taiwan voted yesterday. what did they see? will the results bring us closer to conflict or further away? i ll ask an expert. also, escaping from north korea. it s an incredibly dangerous prospect. would be defectors are likely to be tortured or killed if caught. we will bring you an extraordinary inside look at the journey out of the hermit kingdom with the people behind the new film, beyond utopia. it s almost three months since the ground invasion of gaza began. has it been proportional to the damage hamas inflicted on is
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