Published: March 9, 2026 4:43 pm
Author: RT
More than 160 children were killed in a single attack on the first day of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran
Washington has denied responsibility for a strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that killed more than 160 children in the opening hours of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. RT’s Isabella Blumberg examines how the US has handled deadly strikes on civilians in previous wars.
Videos of the February 28 bombing – verified by several news agencies – appear to show the school struck by what looks like a Tomahawk missile, a weapon used by US forces in the conflict. Investigations by Reuters, the Washington Post, the New York Times, AP, CNN and other outlets concluded that US forces likely destroyed the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab while striking nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites.
In previous wars – including the 2015 bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz and the 1991 strike on Baghdad’s Amaria shelter – similar incidents have followed a familiar pattern: initial denials, internal investigations, and later admissions of “tragic mistakes.”
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