The local press is reporting about a spat between the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Dennon and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Vanessa Frazier. The UN diplomat posted a tweet on X.com sharing her concerns about a US or Israeli airstrike on a school in Iran. The Israeli diplomat, known for defending Israel’s atrocious crimes in Gaza, accused the diplomat of hypocrisy for failing to mention Israeli causalities in the conflict.
The UN diplomat also erroneously uploaded a photo of dead bodies of Iranian protestors and has since then deleted her tweet.
Foreign press verified that the school was actually targeted. The foreign press can not confirm the death toll which has been issued by Iranian authorities and quoted by Iranian state-press media. The strike took place on 28th February on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, southern Iran. The strike occurred around 10:45 a.m. local time during school hours (Saturday is a school day in Iran).
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the press that the US would never intentionally targeted a school or a civilian building.
Satellite images procured by independent investigators show that school was incorporated with the compound of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (Asif Corps Barracks). However, that the school was incorporated into a military compound does not legally make it a legitimate target and the strike could have been the result of human error in the precise identification of IRGC locations.
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