“I don’t think that in my entire life as a journalist, I’ve ever reported on a more heinous crime than this.”
Drop Site’s @jeremyscahill reflects on his reporting on the Feb. 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, which killed 156 civilians, including 120 children and 26 teachers. All 26 teachers killed were women, including one who was six months pregnant.
“When it’s our bombs that are dropped on children across the world, we know almost nothing about who was killed in these strikes.”
Scahill spoke with doctors, parents, teachers, survivors, and people who lost loved ones in the attack.
“Part of what we set out to do was to approach this story and say: Let’s hear what happened that day through the lens and perspective of the people who survived it and those who lost their loved ones that day.”
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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🚨INVESTIGATION: @LeverNews for the first time exposes the secret network of shadowy groups allowing AIPAC cash to flood into elections with no disclosure of its involvement. Cash boosted candidates through groups branded to popular causes that had nothing to do with Israel.
They proudly and openly post it themselves: https://t.co/xcTbtccOJA
If Soviet Kharkiv was a proud place of resistance to the Nazis, in the capitalist Ukraine it became a place of the international Nazi get-togethers.
The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history.
Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.
Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: The War Tehran Believes Is Coming
Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights.
By @jeremyscahill, @peimansalehi_, and @ryangrim
https://t.co/ArcWYZuUT7
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: Mike Rogers Puts Spotlight on Failed Benghazi Probe in Final Weeks of Senate Race
Unpacking Rogers's legal threat against Drop Site.
By @ryangrim and @ClimateTalker
https://t.co/bVXzL6ImL1
Likely incoming NY-10 congressman Brad Lander calls into Breaking Points after being released from Israeli military custody following his detention while harvesting olives alongside Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank.
@ryangrim | @emilyjashinsky | @bradlander
Unpacking Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers’s legal threat to Drop Site over our reporting on government contracts awarded to the security firm his wife ran.
@ryangrim | @emilyjashinsky
Egyptian authorities just arrested and imprisoned an entire newsroom last month. Now they are summoning the incredible journalist Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Egypt's most important independent news outlet Mada Masr, for questioning yet again.
There are going to be so many House Republicans I’ve never heard of losing their seats in two weeks to Democrats I’ve never heard of. I’ll be a googling maniac on the Breaking Points set, pretending I totally tracked that race.
Abdul is a generational political talent and expert at calmly dismantling the bigotries and hypocrisies of the right. (BTW Tommy is a former Hawley staffer apparently)
🚨 “He was blown to pieces right before my eyes. His schoolbag was still on his shoulder.”
Israeli forces killed 14-year-old Palestinian student Mohammed Abu Hammad in a drone strike on Al-Baraka Street, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza shortly after he returned from school.
Mohammed had stopped at his father's shop to look after it while his father ran an errand. “He hadn't even been sitting in the chair for five minutes,” Ahmed Muhareb told Drop Site's Mohamed Ahmed. “They fired a missile at the boy, while his schoolbag was still on his back.”
At the hospital, people held up Mohammed's bloodstained schoolbag and notebooks, pointing to the shrapnel that had pierced them. His father wept over his son's body. “I swear, I was just talking to him,” he cried. “Mohammed was the one I depended on.”
“This is a child. What did he do wrong?” Mohammed's sister, Malak Abu Hammad, said. Questioning the ceasefire, she asked, “Do they even know God, to be talking about a ceasefire?”
“Is it not enough that you've forced us to live in tents? You've forced us to live in hunger and poverty. Why are you killing us?” Muhareb asked.
Several other students were wounded in the attack, which also killed another Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said. At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Saturday morning.
🎥 Mohamed Ahmed