For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC
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@usmntonly nah its cringe corruption, and demons like Howard Lutnick are using the USMNT for a quick little sportwashing moment. The Epstein class are making a mockery of football.
FIFA is such a rancid organization. Over the course of their genocide against the Palestinians, the Israelis have killed hundreds of Palestinian athletes, including football players. It is a particularly nasty cruelty of the western liberal order to ask that the slaughtered ‘play’ with their killers.
@t_mporal @NYGDaily Jaxson Dart would also agree that spelling words wrong is actually far worse than supporting the mass murder of children in Gaza. you got me
@LFGDevils@NYGDaily You 2nd post is literally you falling for a fucking psy-op you stupid troglodyte. Nick Shirley is a fucking controlled propogandist, you fucking muppet.
@NYGDaily The United States bombed and killed 150 children at the Minab school in Iran, within the first few hours of an illegal war. The largest civilian mass US terrorist attack since the My-Lai massacre in 1968. If you support the regime responsible for this, you support child murder.
Today is Nakba Day, commemorating Israel’s mass expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948.
Zionist forces raped dozens of Palestinian women during the war. Here is a summary of the known incidents:
1. In April 1948, Zionist forces attacked Deir Yassin. Zionist commander Yitzhak Levy reported on April 13: "‘Lehi members tell of the barbaric behaviour of the IZL toward the prisoners and the dead. They also relate that the Irgun men raped a number of Arab girls and murdered them afterward." (Morris, The Birth, p.238. Morris's source on this is a report from the IDF archives.). Ilan Pappe adds: “ As they burst into the village [of Deir Yassin], the Jewish soldiers sprayed the houses with machine-gun fire, killing many of the inhabitants. The remaining villagers were then gathered in one place and murdered in cold blood, their bodies abused while a number of the women were raped and then killed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.90).
2. In mid-April 1948, during the battle of Mishmar ha-Emek in the western Jezreel Valley, Eliezer Bauer (Be’eri) reported: “Also in the village, when adult males were discovered hiding hours after the end of the battle – they were killed . . . It is said that there were also cases of rape. (Morris, The Birth, p.243).
3. In mid-May, Zionist forces attacked Kfar Saba and Qaqun. “In Qaqun the UN claimed, and testimonies by Jewish troops corroborated, that the takeover had involved a case of rape.” Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.132.)
4. On May 14, 1948, Haganah & Irgun units occupied Jaffa. "On 14 or 15 May, a 12-year-old girl was raped by two Haganah soldiers; there were also a number of attempted rape." (Morris, The Birth, p.220, citing report from the IDF archives.). Very soon after Jaffa was occupied, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209).
5. On May 13-18, 1948, the Haganah went on an offensive in Western Galilee, Operation Ben-Ami. "The only serious atrocity recorded was the rape-murder of a girl and the murder of her father." (Morris, The Birth, p.231)
6. On May 12-13, 1948, Zionist forces conquored Burayr, northeast of Gaza. “The 9th Battalion troops killed a large number of villagers, apparently executing dozens of army-age males. They appear also to have raped and murdered a teenage girl.” (Morris, The Birth, p.258, citing a Zionist memoir & Zionist oral history).
7. On 13 May, 1948, Zionist forces attacked Abu Shusha. During the operation, “One Haganah soldier twice attempted to rape a 20-year-old woman prisoner.” (Morris, The Birth, p. 257, citing a Haganah archival report).
8. On May 1, 1948, Palmach fighters shot several Palestinians in ‘Ein Zeitun (in the Upper Galilee). According to a May 4, 1948 British report of the attack, “women had been raped” in the village. Morris, The Birth, p.289.
9. May 1948: In Tantura, where Israeli soldiers also carried out a massacre, here is how Najiah Ayyub described what happened: 'I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.211)
10. In the summer of 1948, Palmach militiamen “raped and murdered” four village women from the inhabitants of the Shi‘ite village of Hunin, in the Galilee Panhandle (Morris, The Birth, p.249 & 461, citing a Haganah report)
11. July 1948: ”Reports had been received about Jewish behavior in previously occupied areas …. incidents of rape about which they had heard terrible stories from Acre and Ramla.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.281).
12. In Oct. 1948, Zionist forces carried a massacre in Dawayima, executing a few hundred Palestinians. They were “‘lined up and killed by machinegun fire,” according to Morris. A Zionist report revealed: “one soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her.” (Morris, The Birth, p.470, citing a Kibbutz Meuhad Archives report). Pappe adds: “the Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive in houses, and men stabbed to death.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.196).
13. On December 9, 1948, a Red Cross report tells of two Jewish soldiers who burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter. 17 days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The abusers appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. Pappe writes: “It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those 17 days before the girl was set free; the worst may be presumed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209).
14. In February 1949, after Israel agreed to allow civilians to remain in the Palestinian towns of Faluja (what was transformed into Kiryat Gat), it quickly reneged on its promise, mounting a campaign of low-key violence and psychological warfare designed to intimidate the inhabitants into flight. The UN Mediator, Ralph Bunche, quoting UN observers reported that ‘Arab civilians . . . at Al Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers and . . . there have been some cases of attempted rape.” (Morris, The Birth, p.522)
15. Israeli forces attacked Safsaf, a Palestinian village near Safed, on Nov 6, 1948. A Zionist archival report documents: “ ‘52 adult males’ tied together and dropped into a well and of three cases of rape, including of a 14-year-old girl. Nahmani also mentions several cases of rape and ‘a number of dead women’.” Arab oral testimony from the early 1970s, as recorded by Nazzal (Exodus, 93–95), more or less corroborates the contemporaneous Jewish documentation. According to Nazzal, the soldiers raped four women and blindfolded and executed ‘about 70’ men.” Morris, The Birth, p.481). Survivors recall how four women and a girl were raped in front of the other villagers and how one pregnant woman was bayoneted.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.184)
On 12 August 1949, Israeli soldiers based in Kibbutz Nirim on the northern edge of today's Gaza Strip, captured a 12-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang- raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: 22 soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.210)
Summary
Morris concludes: “There were also several dozen cases of rape, a crime viewed with particular horror in Arab and Muslim societies.” (Morris, The Birth, p.592)
Morris adds: “About a dozen cases—in Jaffa, Acre, and so on—are reported in the available contemporary documentation and, given Arab diffidence about reporting such incidents and the (understandable) silence of the perpetrators, and IDFA censorship of many documents, more, and perhaps many more, cases probably occurred.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.406).
Pappe writes: “David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each [rape] case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: 'Rape Cases'. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: 'a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers covered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.' (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209).
Sources:
Benny Morris, The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-1949
https://t.co/A6l95xmlpG
Ilan Pappé, The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
https://t.co/FjqokaqzcV
Benny Morris, 1948: History of the First Arab-Israeli War
https://t.co/Wmj1wlKNuM
Pop on whether Nikola Jokic has revolutionized C position: "When I think of revolutions, I think of people like Che Guevara, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. I don’t really think of Jokic as far as revolutionary, so I think you’re a bit hyperbolic there. But he is one heck of a player."
Yotam Haim, the hostage killed by the IDF in Gaza under the mistaken belief he was Palestinian, apparently had his sperm taken from his corpse after death despite not being a soldier. His mom, who said she was never angry at the IDF, is now looking for a woman to have his child.