Malice aforethought is the sine qua non of murder, a crime for which he and his gang of neoNazis who made this and other deliberate choices must be tried. 😡

Yeah, turn the whole team over for trials in the Hague.

We can't have that in the military these days.

"No stupid rules of engagement," Hegseth told us; "no politically correct wars," he added.

It is soooo PC to NOT kill civilians--especially little kids.

Beat your chest Pete and tell us how manly we are for doing this.

Meanwhile, Evil Turnip tries to tell us that somewhere along the line we sold Tomahawk missiles AND all of the launch equipment needed to use them to Iran so they could bomb their own school in a false flag attempt at making us look bad....

all of them.

probably get a $1B in oil from Iran for each of them and, of course, having more gas for our ever increasing supply of BPFM (Big Pickups For MAGAts) is our only aim since peace, justice, clean air, and democracy are all gone as aims.

They need to be held accountable. But how will this happen when they control the entire government?

There were slightly more boys killed than girls.

That's consistent with how most media seems to be referring to the deaths now ("mostly children" rather than "mostly girls" )

ETA: Here are two tallies - I've seen a third with a 59-48 (ish split). I can't find that again.

From anything I have seen, it was the target. And the slow conversation to a school ended no later than 2017 when the school appeared on Google Earth satellite imagery - 9 years ago. Additional buildings may have been added later, but the area was completely walled off from the military complex by then, with completely separate new entrances added. Ignoring data available to the general public for 9 years (let alone secret information available only to those planning this attack) is gross negligence (being as kind as posible)

I have also seen numerous reports of parents of boys who received calls from the school to pick up their sons. So apparently both boys and girls were present in the school itself, not simply in the rest of the compound.

I indicated that anything in the vicinity was "collateral damage" and as noted by the 2nd link with the NPR analysis, it appeared that the compound may have been hit multiple times (or at least there was enough debris from the initial blast to damage every building in the compound). One article I saw quoted one of the Iranian leadership calling the hit a "double tap", which was an initial hit and then coming back around and hitting again (something that has been confirmed that the U.S. has done to those little speed boats).

And as I noted, the compound itself was still under construction where I think even one of your links showed a "ribbon cutting" on what was a new clinic. So it's possible that the "school building" was hosting both but would be designated as the "girls school" until another school was built as articles were mentioning "housing" that was also under construction.

Al Jazzera did an exhaustive analysis of the compound as well - i.e., most there were families of current military soldiers. Reuters also did an analysis and even described the school's website that had been active for at least a year, with photos of girls in uniforms all lined up.

And from here - https://iranwire.com/en/features/149926-what-happened-at-the-bombed-school-in-minab/

The parents of the children who were with surviving adults after the first strike were called to come pick up their children as soon as they could. Those children were no longer surviving when the parents arrived at the school. (It was some of the interviews with those parents that first led me to question the description of it as a girls' school - since some of those described dropping their sons off at the school.)

segregate schooling by gender and apparently since that area where the compound is located, follows the more conservative ideology, any boys who were there were either originally segregated in that school building that has been designated for girls, perhaps pending a new building for them -or- they DO have their own building at the compound not yet named, -or- they were at the compound for some event.

I.e., they don't do "co-ed".

Supposedly that school is for children of the military, and any others are invited to attend based on whatever criteria they use to select those from non-military families.

I don't think Iran has gone as severe in the imposition and enforcement of Sharia law, "nationwide", as the Taliban in Afghanistan, but even during religious services, girls/women are separated from the boys/men.

Since most reports that separate the dead by gender that I've seen list more boys killed than girls. And I've seen several interviews of parents describing doing their sons off at school.

Worst white rap ever.

less about them.