Iranian authorities have claimed that more than 160 students were killed at a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the conflict. Officials also reported that a hospital in Tehran was hit during the strikes.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei, writing on X, criticised the attacks, saying they occurred despite what he described as the aggressors’ claims of having advanced military equipment and precision-targeting systems. He alleged that the targeting of civilian infrastructure, including medical centres, schools and media institutions, amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Meanwhile, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said the agency was working to verify reports of the incident at Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital.
Responding to the allegations regarding the school strike, a spokesperson for United States Central Command, Tim Hawkins, said the military was aware of reports of civilian casualties linked to ongoing operations and was reviewing the claims.
