At Least 153 Schoolgirls Killed Amidst Continued US-Israeli Attacks on Iran

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The US-Israel airstrikes that hit Iran Saturday morning may have been targeted at annihilating its missile industry and navy, as Trump posted to Truth Social, yet on Saturday morning it was announced that at least 153 children had been killed after a strike hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in southern Iran. The young girls are said to have been around 12 years old.

According to Iranian officials, the school hit was a girls’ school in Minab, located near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base, which had previously been targeted.

Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, referred to the incident as a “barbaric act”, and Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced on social media that the US and Israel “continue to indiscriminately strike residential areas, sparing neither hospitals, schools, Red Crescent facilities, nor cultural monuments”. 

A report by The Guardian featured a Tehran resident standing in the ruins of the school. Amongst the debris, scattered with children's textbooks, he said “you can see the blood of these children on these books”. 

Trump has not commented on the attack. However, he gave an interview in the East Room of the White House where he stated that the campaign in Iran would continue for at least four to five weeks.