As you read this, Israel is continuing to carry out genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with deadly attacks killing civilians, ongoing forced displacement, and severe restriction of lifesaving aid.
The impunity Israel has enjoyed in Gaza has given it free rein to repeat unlawful patterns elsewhere, most notably in Lebanon, where Israel is continuing unlawful attacks killing civilians and driving mass displacement by destroying civilian buildings and agricultural land.
In new research, Amnesty International shows how Israel systematically destroyed high-rise buildings in Gaza City between September and October 2025, further forcibly displacing Palestinian families.
“You cannot imagine how I felt and the panic which ensued… We had no time to take anything. My parents are old, my father is 85 and is unable to walk. We lived on the eighth floor and I had to get some neighbors to help carry him downstairs. My children are young, the youngest only two years and also needed to be carried.”
That’s what a university professor living at Mushtaha Tower 6, in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City told Amnesty after the building was destroyed by the Israeli military.
Now, his seven-year-old son is obsessed with checking his phone, “He checks all the time that the phone is working because he is afraid that somebody may call once more to tell us that the place where we are staying is going to be bombed.”
Amnesty’s investigation examined the Israeli military’s leveling of 13 multi-story residential and commercial buildings across Gaza City in the occupied Gaza Strip. The investigation found that the Israeli military severely damaged and destroyed the high-rise buildings, which housed thousands of people, many of them internally displaced – by dropping multiple bombs on each building after forcing residents to leave with almost no notice. These attacks should be investigated as the war crimes of wanton destruction, collective punishment, and direct attacks on civilian objects.
U.S. weapons in Israel’s unlawful attacks
This report from Amnesty is only the latest in numerous investigations showing Israel’s unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects carried out with the full backing of the U.S. government. Israel continues to receive U.S. weapons, munitions, and other military and security support that it uses to carry out such violations of international law.
Amnesty has also documented in detail a number of Israeli airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including many children. U.S.-origin weapons were used in some of these attacks, and in all 15 cases Amnesty investigated, there was no evidence of a military objective. While these represent a fraction of Israel’s aerial attacks, they are indicative of a broader pattern of repeated direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects or deliberately indiscriminate attacks.
In fact, Amnesty has documented extensive evidence of the grave violations of international law committed by Israel, including genocide. And despite these war crimes, the U.S. government continues to provide weapons to the government of Israel. This must stop.
Tell the U.S. government to stop the transfer of weapons to Israel!
Congress can and must save lives
A year ago today, Representatives Delia Ramirez, Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan, along with 18 of their colleagues, introduced the historic Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565) to prohibit the president from transferring seven specific weapons systems, which would amount to a partial arms embargo. This prohibition would include some of the very weapons that have been used by Israel to wipe out entire Palestinian families identified by Amnesty’s investigations.
Its passage would be a critical step towards stemming the flow of U.S. arms that are fueling these atrocities. It is the strongest bill that has been introduced in Congress to block arms transfers to Israel.
The bill is gaining real momentum, growing from 22 original co-sponsors to a total of 72 co-sponsors!
And that’s where we need your help.
Members of Congress have an opportunity—and an obligation—to act. They must ensure that the U.S. immediately suspends the supply, sale, or transfer to Israel of all weapons, munitions, and other military and security equipment, including the provision of training and other military and security assistance. They can start by co-sponsoring this critically important bill right now.
We can save lives by immediately suspending weapons transfers to the Israeli government and applying pressure to end Israel’s genocide, illegal occupation, and apartheid.
Urge your U.S. representative to co-sponsor the Block the Bombs Act and stop U.S. weapons from fueling Israel’s genocide, illegal occupation, and apartheid.