Whose Airstrike Hit a Girls’ School in Iran? The U.S. Says It’s Still Investigating.
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Top Trump administration officials are investigating whether a U.S. airstrike hit a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing at least 175 people, mostly children, on the first day of the war.
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the Department of War is still probing the incident and emphasized that U.S. forces do not target civilians.
- The attack, one of the deadliest in the American-Israeli campaign against Iran, has not been definitively attributed to any country, and the reasons for the strike remain unclear.
- UNESCO condemned the killing of pupils at the school as a grave violation of international humanitarian law protecting schools.
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