A U.S. military strike killed at least 123 children at a girls' school in Manab, Iran.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
Multiple independent sources report that a U.S. missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary girls' school in Minab, Iran, on Feb. 28, 2026 killed at least 123 children, consistent with the claim. The post's spelling 'Manab' appears to be a typo for Minab, and Bloomberg's reporting supports the AI-reliant 'kill chain' framing.
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… And Ecuadorian operation on an alleged narco-terrorist compound actually raided a dairy farm, with no arrests, but the Ecuadorian military did allegedly torture some folks, per The New York Times. Meanwhile, according to reporting in Bloomberg, serious issues with the AI-assisted, quote unquote, kill chain used by the U.S. Military led to the strike that killed at least 123 children at a girls school in Manab, Iran. United Nations investigators recently concluded that this was likely a war crime. Funnily enough, the boat strikes do not constitute a war crime because we're simply not at war with the cartels. …
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Supports. Bloomberg reports that Pentagon investigators found flawed intelligence and overreliance on AI contributed to the Feb. 28 strike that killed at least 123 children in Minab.[3]
Supports. Reuters reports a UN fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe U.S. forces were responsible for the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, where around 120 schoolchildren were among those killed.[1]
Supports. Airwars identified 123 children killed in the strike on the Shajara Tayyiba elementary school in Minab, all 13 or younger, after at least two alleged U.S. missiles hit the school.[4]
Supports. The UN report, as cited by Stripes, relied on credible information that 157 people were killed, including 123 children, in the strike on the Minab school.[5]
Context. Reporting varies on total deaths (about 150 to 168), but child deaths are consistently given as roughly 120 to 123, matching the claim's figure.[1][4][6][7]
Context. The U.S. has not publicly accepted responsibility and the Pentagon investigation findings have not been released, but this does not contradict the claimed death toll.[2][6]
Sources
7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanityreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian childrenapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Inside the US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian Schoolbloomberg.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4USIR260228aairwars.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5UN report cites possible US war crimes in deadly strikes on ...stripes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6'Dozens of children died in a missile strike. This is my response'heraldscotland.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7UN report finds “reasonable grounds” for war crimes charges in US ...wsws.org · not rated · cited for: context
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