An Israeli attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab killed dozens, state media said.
Published on 28 February 2026
State media reported that an Israeli strike on an elementary girls’ school in Minab, a city in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province, killed at least 51 people, bringing the immediate civilian cost from Israel and the United States’ massive bombing of Iran into sharp focus.
Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that at least two students were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Wal said of the attack on the girls’ school, “There are new reports confirming that the death toll in that strike is now over 40. That was a civilian target and one of the targets that could really be a problem. Iran’s.
“President Trump has assured the Iranian people that aid or assistance is coming their way, but now we are seeing civilian casualties; this underscores the Iranian government’s violation of international law and aggression against the Iranian people,” he said.
According to Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, thousands of civilians were killed or injured and public infrastructure damaged during the US-Israeli 12-day war in June 2025.
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