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The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.

At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.

In one video circulating on social media, purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the strike, smoke rises from the burnt-out walls, and debris lies spread across the road. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the site, some in obvious distress. Screams can be heard in the background. The report of the bombing, its death toll and the video’s source could not immediately be independently verified by the Guardian. Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 78 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

What's that thing when people are killed for no real strategic purpose? 🤔

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 36 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's either collateral damage or murder. Sadly I'm going with murder

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

There is a strategic purpose...

They don't want peace, even if that's because they won.

They want a constant war as an excuse for why they can be the only ones in power.

Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won't surrender. Even if the government does, you can claim all the people who want to kill your for killing kids are terrorists, and that they didn't surrender.

Which makes it even worse.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won’t surrender.

It's a genocide. We don't intend to let them surrender. We're going to keep killing long after Iran has been fully defanged

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

Unfortunately, just statistics

[–] scvarii@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago

You might be thinking of collective punishment.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It's on the tip of my tongue. Starts with an M?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I was thinking of the letter T but that works also.