Revealed On 3 Mar 2026
Iran has held a mass funeral for 165 schoolgirls and employees killed in what it has described as a United States-Israeli assault on a ladies faculty within the southern metropolis of Minab.
Saturday’s strike got here on the primary day of the joint US and Israeli assaults on Iran. It was the deadliest incident within the marketing campaign towards Tehran to this point.
The Israeli navy stated it was not conscious of any Israeli or US assaults in that space. All through its genocidal conflict on Gaza, nonetheless, Israel has repeatedly denied duty for lethal assaults on Palestinian civilians, solely to later backtrack when proof emerged, typically describing such incidents as “unintended”.
The assault in Minab has been condemned by UNESCO and Nobel Peace Prize-winning schooling activist Malala Yousafzai.
Intentionally attacking an academic establishment, hospital or another civilian construction is a conflict crime beneath worldwide humanitarian regulation.
On Monday, Iranian Ministry of International Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stated the 2 international locations “proceed to indiscriminately strike residential areas, sparing neither hospitals, faculties, Pink Crescent services, nor cultural monuments”.
