Let one of the "saviors of the world" explain two things to us: Does this belong to the so-called "blind strikes" with "collateral damage"? And does it constitute a war crime?

 Ας μας εξηγήσει κάποιος από τους "σωτήρες του κόσμου" δυο πράγματα: Αυτό ανήκει στα λεγόμενα "τυφλά χτυπήματα" με..."παράπλευρες απώλειες"? Και μήπως αποτελεί έγκλημα πολέμου? 

" Επίθεση ΗΠΑ και Ισραήλ στο Ιράν: Τουλάχιστον 63 κορίτσια σκοτώθηκαν σε επίθεση σε σχολείο... Αυτόπτης μάρτυρας λέει ότι κορίτσια, ηλικίας μεταξύ επτά και 12 ετών, εθεάθησαν να κείτονται νεκρά απέναντι από το σχολείο τους... Τουλάχιστον 63 άνθρωποι, σχεδόν όλοι νεαροί κορίτσια, σκοτώθηκαν σε αεροπορική επιδρομή σε δημοτικό σχολείο στο νότιο Ιράν, ανέφεραν οι τοπικές αρχές."

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US and Israeli attack on Iran: At least 63 girls killed in strike on school
Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

At least 63 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, local authorities said.

The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab city in the southern Hormozgan province as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.

The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies. 

Video posted on pro-government Telegram accounts show Iranians searching through the destroyed school in Minab (Telegram)

One of the Minab school's staff, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she is still in shock from the intensity of the attack.

Through tears, she said she used to watch these young girls playing at school every day. But after today’s strikes, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.

She said she had stepped out of the school to take care of something when she suddenly heard a horrifying sound. Within seconds, a missile - or something like it - hit the school building.

After hearing the blast, she ran back toward the school and was faced with a scene she says she will never forget for the rest of her life.

“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 caused many of those inside the building to become trapped under 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 Corp appeared to show people digging through the rubble of the school.

Smoke is seen rising from surrounding buildings and a wrecked car lies on the street. People are seen screaming and wailing, while others appear in shock.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed 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."

Country-wide attacks

US and Israeli strikes on Iran have also heavily targeted Tehran. Explosions echoed across the capital as Iranians set out for work on the first day of the week, but quickly spread across the country.

Attacks have been reported in a range of cities, including the holy city of Qom, Karaj, Isfahan and Kermanshah.

Iranian media has not yet given an overall death toll, but Reuters reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been moved to a "safe place".

US President Donald Trump said the joint attacks were aimed at "eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime".

"Short time ago, US military began major combat operation in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime," he said.

Trump also made a number of other claims and predictions without offering any concrete evidence, such as Washington's refusal to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.

"We are going to annihilate their navy. We are going to ensure that the region’s ‘terrorist’ proxies can no longer destabilise the region or the world".

"We will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It is a very simple message," he said.


source: middleeasteye