Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency has reported that at least 40 people were killed after an Israeli strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab in the southern Hormozgan province.
This is a developing story. I’ve provided some micro-updates in the comments, focusing on the verification of the story.
I recommend this Middle East Eye, and this Guardian article for more on this story.
Fuck Israel. Fake ass country.
Girls? Those were non-jewish beings. Soulless vessels. So all good in terms of ethics guys.
Young though, so figures Trump would hit it
Trump has manners. He wouldn’t touch a brown lady.
God, this is complicated. Top-level comment of where I wanted to micro-update got deleted.
So, it will be here. Though, I don’t think there will be much more to say.
earlier update
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Vall said of the attack on the girls’ school, “There are new reports confirming the number of people killed in that strike has now gone above 40. […]”
Recent updates
A staff member at the Minab school, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she remains in shock at the intensity of the attack.
Through tears, she said she used to watch the young girls playing at school every day. After today’s strikes, however, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.
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Death toll rises to 85, according to Iranian judiciary.
At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said.
Also,
There were 170 female students at the school at the time of the attack. So far, at least 45 people have also been reported wounded.
The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
UTC: 17:29 update
Capt Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said he was “aware of reports” that a girls’ school was struck and they were looking into them.
UTC: 18:15 update
Video circulating on social media of the site post-impact. I can’t verify the authenticity of this.
UTC: 19:43 update
The Guardian published an article with more information on this at 18.28 GMT.
Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.
The school appears to be adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. If the death toll is confirmed, the school bombing would be the largest mass casualty event of the US-led attack so far.
UTC: 20:29 update
Here’s a imginn.com frontend link to the instagram post by Persian factchecking service Factnameh. It’s a mini presentation about the event.
Also
Middle East Eye has a more complete article now.
After hearing the blast, she [staff at the school MEE says they interviewed] ran back towards the school and was faced with a scene she says she would never forget.
“I felt like I had gone mute. I couldn’t speak,” the staff member told MEE. “You could hear the sound of children crying and screaming.”
When rescue teams arrived, she said, they began to understand the scale of the disaster.
“We still don’t know how many are under the rubble. Some are even saying more than 100. Some of these small children are severely injured. Their parents have come to the school, and this place has turned into a house of mourning.”
The air strike on the school left many inside the building trapped beneath the rubble.
There were 170 female students at the school at the time of the attack. So far, at least 45 people have also been reported wounded.
Footage posted by Telegram accounts affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps appeared to show people digging through the rubble.
Smoke could be seen rising from surrounding buildings, while a wrecked car lay in the street. People were heard screaming and wailing; others appeared to be in shock.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denounced the attack on X and said the deaths of the children would “not go unanswered”.
“The destroyed building is a primary school for girls in the south of Iran. It was bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils,” he wrote.
“Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone.”
UTC: 21:38 ending updates
everyone with a young daughter knows how horrible this is. I still cant understand was it muscle-memory for the israeli pilot thinking he was in gaza? was this an intentional war crime? or how the fuck did a F35 or whatever precision bomb girls elementary school? this was not a ballistic missile 9000 miles away
Remember when zios claimed 40 beheaded babies? “Every accusation is a confession.”
But I’m pretty sure that imperial news won’t be covering this actual event nearly as much as they did the imaginary.
Putinesque.
“What are we a bunch of Asians/Russians”
This is literally the most USAmerican thing to happen.
Bombing civilians in the middle east has been the Epstein Coalitions favourite pass time for literal decades.
Axis of Epstein.
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Friend…
I don’t wanna put skepticism down like this, and saying that pretty much every news org is gonna take that statement right now is understandably not enough sometimes… Maybe somebody can articulate this better why it’s nonsense not to roughly believe this right now.
Those are still all just quoting Iranian state media. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just saying there is no independent confirmation, as far as I’m aware.
Yeah, that’s what I meant by
and saying that pretty much every news org is gonna take that statement right now is understandably not enough sometimes
Sorry, I can’t express what’s on my mind right now. I guess we can talk about this again once the situation there is more or less independently verified. :)
Gonna micro-update here.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Vall said of the attack on the girls’ school, “There are new reports confirming the number of people killed in that strike has now gone above 40. […]"
Edit: top-level post got deleted, for anyone subscribing to updates, moved to here: https://piefed.social/comment/10332190
same goes for when “israel” and the US say they were bombing a terrorist factory.
Of course.
Fool.
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https://piefed.social/comment/10332190
It’s also not unheard of that Israel targets schools, children, incubators, etc. on purpose and washes the narrative by targeting journalists and lying.
Like, has Germany even started calling it a genocide yet? You say it’s typical Iran. But do you acknowledge, it’s typical Israel that their horrors immediately get denied, put into question, etc.?
No, journalists allowed into the country do not count, as they only get to report what the regime allows them to.
Iran is not the US or Europe, and you won’t see much of reality if you only accept it on a silver-platter.
Do actual eye-witnesses count, at least?
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However, so far, the attacks of the US and Israel against Iran have been very precise and only legitimate military targets and personnel have been hit. Soon into the 12 day war Iranian civilians realized how precise the attacks were and were not afraid of going out. Instead, the attacks have been celebrated.
Was this verified by independent sources?
There’s been leaks from the IRGC that the plan was to attack its own people in the case of a US or Israeli attack.
So you want independent verification of some incidents but leaks are fine as long as it aligns with your bias?
Are you aware of your hypocrisy?
However, so far, the attacks of the US and Israel against Iran have been very precise and only legitimate military targets and personnel have been hit.
For that to be true, you’re gonna have to discount all this (more pending):
- school staff eye-witnesses speak of the strike, including of rescue efforts that match Revolutionary Guard footage shared on telegram.
- factchecking service used by major news org verifies video of the site-post impact.
- reuters verifies the same video
- Journalist in Iran aljazeera trusts enough to use his reporting ON IRAN, says there is more verification beyond the governmental statements.
Honestly, I shouldn’t even be listing these, when they are almost as concisely available in the linked updates.
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I apologize, and thank you for your patience. I didn’t quite get your point about origin of strike.
It sounds pretty damn dodgy to me. But, yes, there is no verification of the strike’s origins to my knowledge.
Actually there is at least some verifying material:
From the last image of the Factmeh presentation
A map of the “Asef Guards Barracks” area shows that the Shajareh Tayyebeh IRGC Navy Girls’ School is located within the compound.
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We have the same evidence, I can’t really add anything concrete to it.
What’s your point? That it’s more likely this was a self-sabotage? Or that it’s still a possibility? Without concrete evidence, I don’t know. And I don’t really wanna theorize, but having focused on this story, I care about the girls and the people at the school and their relatives. They are not just numbers. So I’ve thought about this a bit as well.
If they [the aggressors] missed that there is a fucking school with very young school girls as part of the compound, then it’s an intelligence failure and still the aggressor’s responsibility to have caused this tragedy through their shit senseless offensive. And if they did know, they failed a moral test by attack anyway.
I don’t accept that they needed to kill them as part of war strategies. Expect some damn accountability. That includes if Iran self-struck, but even that, as you claim being a rumoured strategy, is also something the aggressors should’ve known about.
