Minab school strike under scrutiny: deliberate target or outdated intelligence?

Al Jazeera’s investigation into the Feb 28, 2026 attack on a girls’ school in Minab argues the Shajareh Tayyebeh school—once part of a military complex but civilian since 2016—was hit alongside the base while a nearby clinic remained intact. Satellite analysis traces the separate civilian school and clinic entrances, raising questions about whether the strike relied on outdated intelligence or was a deliberate targeting of civilian facilities, a pattern with deadly tolls in Iran and elsewhere; the attack killed about 165 people, mostly girls aged 7–12, and wounded 95, prompting scrutiny under international humanitarian law.