Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 100 people
An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing 108 people, Al Jazeera reported, citing Iranian media.
Mizan News Agency, the judiciary’s official news agency, reported the death toll from the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab amid a massive US-Israeli offensive launched Saturday morning.
Workers are continuing to clear wreckage from the site, where 63 others were injured on Saturday, said Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shared a photo of the attack, which he said destroyed the girls’ school and killed “innocent children”.
“These crimes against the Iranian People will not go unanswered,” Araghchi wrote in a post on X.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei also slammed the “blatant crime” and urged action from the United Nations Security Council.
Separately, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that at least two students were killed by another Israeli attack that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran.
There was no immediate reaction from the US or Israel on Iran’s claims about the school strikes.
Earlier, Qazinform News Agency reported that the State of Israel and the United States had launched what they described as a preemptive strike against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of an operation aimed at eliminating what he called an “existential threat.”
As tensions intensified, several Middle Eastern countries reported missile launches and security threats allegedly linked to Iran’s actions.
