Resalat is not an isolated case.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the conflict, the Israel Defense Forces said it had dropped more than 12,000 bombs across Iran and 3,600 bombs on Tehran alone.<\/p>\n
US Central Command says it has struck more than 9,000 targets across Iran.<\/p>\n
Many of these US and Israeli strikes have targeted police stations, Basij militia buildings, police headquarters, military and police universities, safe houses, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) homes, as well as potential ammunition stores and checkpoints.<\/p>\n
Often, these targets are located within busy civilian neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n
On 1 March, an Israeli strike hit the Abbasabad police station near Niloufar Square, where families had gathered after breaking their Ramadan fast.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses describe seeing at least 20 people killed, though the BBC has not verified this number.<\/p>\n
Witnesses described a “terrifying light” followed by multiple explosions.<\/p>\n
“We ran into the street,” one man said.<\/p>\n
“A man and a woman had just come out of a shop\u2026 they were hit immediately.”<\/p>\n
Residents reported multiple strikes in quick succession on the same target.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t even two minutes,” another witness said.<\/p>\n
“When we came back, they hit again.”<\/p>\n
The IDF confirmed it was responsible for the attack, saying it “struck a military target”.<\/p>\n
BBC Eye analysis of the blast zone suggests that, as in Resalat, the damage extended well beyond the named target.<\/p>\n
Under international humanitarian law, all parties to a conflict must distinguish between civilian objects and military objectives.<\/p>\n
The expected harm to civilians or civilian buildings must be proportionate to the expected military advantage gained from that particular action.<\/p>\n
It also requires sides to avoid, as far as feasible, basing military targets within or near densely populated areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resalat is not an isolated case. Since the start of the conflict, the Israel Defense Forces said it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-498206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}