Israeli forces attack Iranian girls’ school, killing at least 40 people
At least 40 people were killed in an Israeli attack on an Iranian girls’ school, according to reports, and another school in northwestern Iran was also attacked.
Iranian media and officials have reported that 85 people were killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on a girls’ elementary school in the country’s south.
IRNA news agency said most of the victims were students from Shajare Tayebeh Girls’ School in Minab. Dozens more people are still missing, the state news agency said.
The IRNA report quotes a local Iranian prosecutor as saying: Reuters could not independently confirm the report. The U.S. and Israeli militaries did not respond to requests for comment.
The United States has joined Israel in launching military strikes and “large-scale combat operations” targeting Iran’s missile capabilities, according to President Donald Trump.
“Our objective is to protect the American people by eliminating the immediate threat from the Iranian regime, which is an evil group of very powerful and fearful people,” Trump said, calling the attack a “large-scale, ongoing operation.”
The overall impact of the strike remains unclear, but Reuters, citing state media, reported that at least 40 people were killed in a strike at a girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran. Separately, state news agency IRNA reported that an airstrike on a school in Abiek, located in northwest Iran, killed one student and injured two others.
This is a developing story.
