Amnesty International has called for the investigation of Israeli strikes on civilian high-rise buildings in the Gaza Strip as war crimes.

“Israel’s unlawful and wanton destruction of civilian high-rise buildings continues to have devastating consequences for displaced Palestinian families in the occupied Gaza Strip, where reconstruction remains a distant dream amid ongoing genocide and air strikes,” the group has said in a press release.

Amnesty finds that Israel “severely damaged and destroyed” high-rise buildings in the Strip, which housed thousands of people, including the internally displaced, in bombing raids with little to no advance notice.

“Statements by Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz in the immediate aftermath of some of the incidents of destruction offer further evidence that the buildings were not destroyed for reasons of imperative military necessity but rather to inflict collective punishment,” the group adds.