cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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Please elaborate on how you feel your vote does not matter in your Democratic primaries!
I’ll just write what I wrote elsewhere. I had much criticism of Harris as I did Biden. I also believe we should all be EXTREMELY vocal about the influence AIPAC crap and center-right conservative politics has on the Democratic party. By all means, this is the primaries – be vocal and critical of the DNC. But it should be noted that Biden proved to be better than Trump in a myriad of ways:
If we only focus on one aspect of someone’s policy (which even then I refuse to believe Harris is as bad as Trump on Gaza), it can skew the big picture.
Unfortunately, my vote for Harris wasn’t ideal; it was simply a matter of damage-control. It’s my firm belief that these US service-members would not have been sent. It’s my firm belief that these 100+ Iranian school children would not have died. Leaving aside all the issues I previously mentioned where Harris and the ENTIRE Democratic party is objectively-better on (leaving aside, you know, Harris, Biden, Obama, etc. NOT being in the Epstein Files).
Because no matter who wins, the DNC does the same shit. They continue the same RNC policies and programs they vocally decried during the previous term, but quieter, they expand US surveillance, military budget and expand the tools of oppression, they do fuck all to truly address the material conditions of the working class and we just get to watch the rich get wildly richer.
The DNC just… doesn’t help people. They just act as a way to lower the temperature away from revolutionary acts, but food, housing, education and medicine just keep getting more expensive, wages are utterly detached from productivity, they don’t get money outta politics and they won’t stand up to protect the rights of Americans.
They know damn well what candidates and policies are popular and they continuously pander to the donors instead of the hard working people that make this country turn.
Heck, whenever they do have a chance to actually work like an opposition party, there’s always conveniently juuuuust enough DINO members to stymie any actual progress. That way the rest of them can throw their hands up and say “ohhh we tried, but it’s their fault, I’m actually on the side of the people!” Bullshit!
They concede power to fascists again and again and make nothing more than milquetoast “resistance” to it and even exacerbate it in plenty of examples.
Biden was an utter failure. He was all talk. He didn’t act to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law, he slept on his promises about minimum wage, he could only give modicum to support to union workers fighting for better working conditions and he did nothing to stop the rise of fascism in his country.
Call me crazy but I think it’s on the DNC to run candidates with policies people like moreso than it’s the people should be demanded to vote for whoever they run. The latter policy has done nothing to help the working class American in the past 30 years, at least, it’s no shock they’re tired of it.