Minab: A Primary School Struck During Classes
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Children and adults were killed at a primary school on February 28. Dated casualty reports, evidence of US responsibility and the UN mission’s reported findings remain distinct from a court judgment or a reconciled victim register.
The school
Children were in class when Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab was struck on February 28. Human Rights Watch's March 7 investigation found the school was separated by a wall and its own street entrance from the adjoining IRGC compound. Researchers examined videos, photographs and satellite imagery. They could not safely interview witnesses or bereaved families directly, limiting their ability to establish the exact toll and victims' identities. HRW, March 7.
Dated reports, differing counts
The UN experts' communication covering February 28–April 6 records allegations that the school strike killed at least 168 people, almost all women and girls. Its summary identifies these as information received and allegations requiring investigation. It is not a judicial finding. UN communication summary.
HRW's March 7 investigation describes a victim-name list containing girls, boys, women and men, with some identities matched to photographs and funeral materials. It does not independently certify every name. “Almost all women and girls” remains the wording of the UN communication, not a verified sex breakdown adopted by this record. HRW, March 7.
HRW's April 20 commentary gives a later reported toll of at least 175 people, including many children. The commentary reports a preliminary US military assessment pointing toward US responsibility and explicitly distinguishes that assessment from the full investigation. HRW, April 20.
September update: attribution and dispute
AP reported on September 17 that the UN fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in the Minab and Lamerd strikes. AP also reported that the US administration rejected the findings and had not released the Pentagon inquiry's results. Those are dated reports of an investigative finding and the response, not a criminal conviction. The mission's finding goes beyond the preliminary April assessment. AP, September 17.
Review — October 8, 2026
These totals are attributed reports with different dates and scopes. They are not added together or presented as a reconciled victim register. HRW's call to investigate a possible war crime is preserved as its legal assessment, without turning it into an adjudicated conviction.
The public record remains verification pending for a reconciled victim register and further inquiry material. This status does not withhold the record or erase the reported investigative findings. The September update is sourced to AP's account; the underlying UN report could not be fetched for independent review in this pass. The last checked account of the Pentagon inquiry is dated September 17; this page does not claim its October 8 completion or continuing status. Search indexing stays disabled under the existing site policy. Atrocity describes the documented civilian harm. No archived copy is claimed.
Revision — October 8: retained the March and April accounts and original source references; corrected the boys' victim-list attribution from April 20 to March 7, and added the September finding and US response. The earlier source version remains in the site's Git history.