The US-Israeli war on Iran opened with massive strikes on urban centers, the assassination of the country’s supreme leader and his family, and the brutal slaying of more than 160 children at a girls’ elementary school in Minab. As more information about the bombing has come to light, discussion has shifted from whether the US carried out the atrocity, to how and why.
The February 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school came on the first day of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, dubbed ‘Operation Epic Fury’ by the administration of US President Donald Trump and ‘Operation Lion’s Roar’ by the Jewish state.
Eyewitnesses have reported at least two missiles hitting the school in quick succession, leaving more than 170 people dead, almost all of whom were schoolgirls. Two missiles are believed to have hit empty warehouses adjacent to the school.
Video footage from the school showed scenes of devastation after the attack, as rescuers combed through the rubble and parents searched for their missing children.
The world looked on in horror as the initial footage was corroborated and heartbreaking images of child-sized graves being prepared were published. The UN declared that “a strike on a school represents a grave assault on children, on education, and on the future of an entire community.”
What did the US and Israel say about the attack?
American and Israeli officials immediately offered a conflicting mix of denials and explanations for the strike. Israeli ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman claimed on March 2 that the school “was actually used by [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and other forces,” and that his sources indicated that the building was “not used at the time as a school but more as an IRGC and governmental building.”
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