Over 160 children died in a single strike on the first day of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran
Washington has rejected responsibility for a strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that killed more than 160 children during the opening hours of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. RT’s Isabella Blumberg looks at how the US has dealt with deadly civilian strikes in past wars.
Videos of the February 28 bombing – verified by multiple news agencies – seem to show the school hit by what appears to be 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 found that US forces likely destroyed the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab while targeting nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites.
In prior wars – including the 2015 bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz and the 1991 strike on Baghdad’s Amaria shelter – similar events have followed a familiar pattern: initial denials, internal investigations, and later admissions of “tragic mistakes.”
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