The UN’s special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing has warned that Israel’s “systematic” bombing of civilian housing and facilities is illegal under international humanitarian law, Al Jazeera reports.

“Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they will systematically destroy and damage civilian housing and infrastructure, rendering an entire city — such as Gaza city — uninhabitable for civilians is a war crime,” Balakrishnan Rajagopal said in a press release.

According to the UN, Israel has destroyed 45 per cent of all housing units in Gaza since October 7 and internally displaced about 1.5 million people.