cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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I’ll take “milquetoastyness” over outright fascism any day. Would I love more progressive candidates across the board? Yes, absolutely! (By the way, are you engaged in your Democratic Primaries in your state right now?)
And so would any other sane, rational individual.
It’s kind of like the 1 nazi at the table argument. If you’re willing to sit out an election when literal nazis are running even if you don’t identify as one, and don’t absolutely love the alternative binary non-fascist choice, then you’re basically still a nazi.
The idea that the Democrat Party aren’t pro-Fascism abroad, is hilarious.
Good old, Obama was so cool with blowing up civilians that he go the criteria for “enemy combatant” changed to pretty much “any male” in order to keep claim that when weddings were blown up on his signed order, they were hitting “enemy combatants”.
Americans voting for the “other murderers” party makes very little difference for the kids in the Middle East they inevitably murder.
Now this comment is hilarious and demonstrative of wide range of folly, not only of that particular history, but improper use of the term fascism. False equivalence fallacies aside, tell me:
I pass your litmus test for engagement. You are kind of missing my point and talking past me though so you’re not passing mine.
Turns out commenting on posts and being involved with the primaries are not mutually exclusive.