Satellite imagery obtained by NBC News via Planet Labs shows the damage at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, which was struck on Saturday as the U.S. and Israel launched joint operations.<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities said at least 168 people, many of them children, were killed.<\/p>\n
The imagery shows multiple impact sites on the school site and the adjoining Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base it was once part of, with 7 buildings damaged or destroyed in total.<\/p>\n
Buildings hit included a clinic, which was opened by the IRGC Navy in 2024, according to Payam Hormozgan, citing the Persian Gulf Central Broadcasting Agency. The clinic\u2019s signage can be read in video geolocated by NBC News.<\/p>\n
A Minab official along with a mother who spoke to NBC News and said her son was killed in the strikes, said the school facility was built on a IRGC base. The base closed around 15 years ago, and all military personnel were moved, although the school stayed open, they said.<\/p>\n
Satellite imagery captured in 2016 showed that the school appeared to have been sectioned off from the rest of the compound and given its own entrance. Watch towers which had been present until that point were removed from the wall around the school.<\/p>\n
Asked about the deaths this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: \u201cAll that I know is that we\u2019re investigating that. Of course, we never target civilians, but we\u2019re taking a look at investigating that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Satellite imagery obtained by NBC News via Planet Labs shows the damage at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-324677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}