Four months after the deadly strike on the “Shajareh Tayyebah” elementary school in Minab, the Associated Press published an investigative report revealing new details about the attack, stating that more than 100 children lost their lives. The strike remains one of the deadliest events of the recent war involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic.
Although the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon, announced it would investigate the strike, the official results of this review have not yet been released, and the Donald Trump administration has not accepted direct responsibility for the attack.
The Associated Press, quoting a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity, wrote that the US military possessed information almost immediately after the strike indicating that the targeted building was a school, but this data had been overlooked during the military target selection process.
The report reconstructs the narrative of the strike based on interviews with US officials, human rights activists, teachers, and individuals in contact with the victims’ families and emergency responders.
According to the report, on the morning of the attack, as airstrikes commenced, school administrators contacted families, asking them to pick up their children early.
