Who was behind theFebruary 28 strikeon Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, southern Iran?

Was it the United States (US) or Israel or as US President Donald Trump put it, “Iran’s mistake"? Fact-checks seem to have answered the question.

On February 28, a massive strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, southern Iran, killed between 165 and 180 people, most of whom were schoolgirls aged 7 to 12. The incident occurred during the opening hours of a broader US-Israeli military campaign against Iran.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh school was located adjacent to the Sayyid al-Shuhada military complex, an IRGC Navy base.

Investigations suggest a “double-tap" strike occurred, where a second missile hit while students and staff were seeking shelter in a prayer hall after an initial explosion.

Analysis by Al Jazeera indicated the school had been a clearly defined civilian institution for over 10 years, suggesting either a grave intelligence failure or a deliberate attack.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed.pic.twitter.com/4jBXrNcRJO— Trevor Ball (@Easybakeovensz)March 8, 2026

Investigations by Dutch fact-checking group Bellingcat, the New York Times, and The Washington Post have linked the February 28, 2026, strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, to aU.S. Tomahawk cruisemissile.

Visual analysis of footage released by Iran’s Mehr News Agency identified the weapon as a BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM). Experts noted that the United States is the only participant in the current conflict known to possess this specific long-range precision weapon.

Trevor Ball shared on X what he alleged was previously unseenfootage– from Iran’s Mehr News – of the missile striking a building in the compound linked to the elite Revolutionary Guard Corps. He said it showed “for the first time, that the United States (had) struck the area".

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