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.
This was no accident.
There is no better way to create extremists than unjustified murder of their children.
There is no better way to keep a people subjugated than maintaining them in constant fear.
EEUU and Israel needs to keep breeding terrorists to oppress their citizens.
Wake the fuck up!!!
And to think the most recent recruiter for defense contractor to email me about a job didn’t like my encouragement for him to swallow a shotgun. Some people 😂
why bet on polymarket when you can just invest in kleenex and ky jelly due to the neocons and chicken hawks crawling out from under the rocks these next few weeks?
I hate that it’s so on-brand for the US to target a school.
…is it? Genuinely asking. I’m 40 and can’t remember ever hearing about the US bombing a school.
The next time I hear someone say “thank you for your service” to a veteran I am going to fucking scream. That phrase always bothered me but this bombing has made it so much worse.
They’re referring to how Americans love to shoot up schools. We have constant school shootings, it’s only natural we’d take that next step to school bombings.
Mass casualty event
It’s a massacre, ffs.
That implicated with bombing cities. What the fuck do people expect to happen if you’re throwing a couple tons of explosives on densely inhabited urban areas?
This is tragic and there needs to be answer for it.
It’s a girl’s school, it’s not a military target, there weren’t “militants” inside and this isn’t Hezbollah where they can claim it was being used as a base. What the fuck happened here, and who specifically is responsible?
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Some videos show it appears to be a ballistic missle launch failure from a nearby launch site. The videos have not been verified. We likely won’t know for sure until after Iran’s regime falls.
Either way its a war crime, either the US/Israel struck a school, or Iran placed offensive missle launchers dangerously close to a school/city.
It was 60 meters next to a military base
This is not tragic, but a war crime - and this war is itself a crime, simply because it is completely contrary to international law.
I am really bothered by the fact that claims like this are echoed by media outlets unchecked, while making them seem like journalism by appending ‘according to [directly involved party] sources’, maybe even ‘can’t be independently verified’.
I mean, Reuters has confirmed that this strike happened and that the video material is credible. Okay, so far so good. That’s bad, and you can report on it and raise questions based off of it. You have something to investigate, you can generate tons of content by discussing adjacent topics, but no, media decides to go for round 2 and report some unverified death toll.
Whether there are 2 or 200 dead children, the story is the same. Why give inherently unreliable sources a stage and credibility by echoing their claim? It’s so frustrating that the wider media landscape is based on grabbing peoples attention, rather than good journalism.
Isnt it right next to an IRGC base or something? Been seeing speculation it could have been a faulty missile of their own launching
