Forensic Architecture report reconstructs Minab school strike

On February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, missiles landed on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab, near the Strait of Hormuz. At least 121 schoolchildren were killed along with 26 teachers.

Forensic Architecture and Sky News analyzed the attack, finding that the school and its surroundings had been a civilian area since 2015.

“By 2018, we see the walls being painted in blue and pink to identify the girls’ school and the boys’ school. We see children playing in the playgrounds in the satellite imagery,” says Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of research at Forensic Architecture.