Recovery Operation Ends at Minab School Hit in US-Israeli Strike

(MENAFN) Iranian authorities announced on Monday that recovery efforts at a primary school in Minab, located in the southern Hormozgan province, have ended, with the confirmed death toll reaching 165.

According to statements from local officials, emergency responders, volunteers from paramilitary groups, and community members worked together to remove debris from Shajareh Tayabeh School.

The building was hit on Saturday morning, during a wave of large-scale US and Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple provinces in Iran. The attack occurred while classes were in session, reducing the school to rubble. Local disaster management teams required more than 24 hours to clear the wreckage and recover all the bodies.

Rademahr said that the bodies of 165 students were retrieved from under the debris. He called the attack a “malicious act” by Israel and the US, adding that it reflected “a historical pattern of child-killing by the Zionist (Israeli) regime.” He further stated that the “cowardly act” in Minab confirmed that Israel would continue what he described as the “targeting of children.”

In addition to the fatalities, 96 people were injured in the strike, most of them students.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi both condemned the attack in separate statements.

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