Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media
The death toll from a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 150, according to Iranian state media.
Mizan news agency, the official news outlet of Iran’s judiciary, reported that the number killed in Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab in southern Iran had risen to 148 killed, with 95 others wounded. The news agency cited Ebrahim Taheri, a prosecutor in Minab.
The school, which was struck on Saturday morning, appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran so far.
Video and photographs from the aftermath of the strike, which have been verified as authentic and geolocated to the site, show hundreds of people gathered around the partially collapsed, smoking building, with rubble strewn across the street and men digging through it for victims. Screams can be heard in the background. In some of the images, schoolbags and textbooks are being pulled from the debris.
The other option is that this was done by Israel, and we know from Gaza that they actually target children for the Terror effect and because they see Muslims as “vermin” so don’t really care that they’re children.
I could totally see the Israeli military doing this on purpose “to break the spirit of Iranians” - I mean, the rest of the World has not punished Israel for doing exactly this in Gaza multiple times, so from that side they would get no downsides from committing more of such attrocities, whilst on the side of Israeli Public Opinion, given how widespread and normalized Racism is there (especially Islamophobia, with Muslims commonly described as “violent” and even “vermin”), they will probably get an uptick in public support from this.
My personal theories on this are that it was either some American military person choosing a target based on satellite imagery and mistakenly picking the set of “buildings with a large patio” which is the school rather than the IRGC base or the Israelis purposefully doing it because they can and for them all Iranians are “vermin” hence the young ones too are just more “vermin”, not children.
I don’t think the American Military is quite to the point of chosing to murder a school filled with children (though they have quite the track record from way back when they were droning Afghanistan of not caring all that much about large numbers of civilian casualties), but the Israeli Military have a lot of recent practice with purposefully targetting children of “vermin” races and are pretty much veterans at it.