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Playingmantis

(662 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:41 AM 10 hrs ago

War Crimes Proven???

As a fragile cease-fire takes hold, Iran is sorting through the wreckage from U.S.-Israeli strikes, which have exacted a heavy toll on its civilian infrastructure. The New York Times has verified damage to 22 schools and 17 health care facilities, a fraction of the devastation in the war so far.

Schools and hospitals hold some of the strongest protections of all civilian infrastructure under international humanitarian law, and intentional attacks on them could be considered war crimes. Even strikes on military targets that damage nearby schools and hospitals can violate international law, experts say, and military commanders are expected to take stringent measures to prevent and minimize such harm.

By far the deadliest strike on civilians came on Feb. 28, the first day of the war, when the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School was bombed in the southern Iranian town of Minab. The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them children, according to Iranian health officials

....a new U.S.-made ballistic missile, hit a sports hall, an adjacent elementary school and a blood transfusion center near a military facility in the city of Lamerd, according to weapons experts and a visual analysis by The Times. The sports hall was being used by a young girls’ volleyball team at the time.

At least six people, including at least four children, were killed in this strike, according to a Times review of a list of fatalities released by an Iranian news agency, images of caskets posted online, recordings of funeral speeches and reference photos of the victims.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other American officials have insisted that the U.S. military is acting with precision.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/us-israel-strikes-iran-structures-damage.html

The people in these areas will hate us for years and someday may get revenge..THANKS, YOU DISGUSTING ORANGE THUG AND YOUR DRUNKEN LICKSPITTLE SEC OF WAR! And thanks to all you MAGA Evangelicals that support this!

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War Crimes Proven??? (Original Post) Playingmantis 10 hrs ago OP
This war will go on for years, even if the fighting stops. gab13by13 10 hrs ago #1
Just the threat of wiping out a civilization is a war crime. Scrivener7 9 hrs ago #2
Proven? They brag about their war crimes in public press conferences. Midnight Writer 8 hrs ago #3

Midnight Writer

(25,469 posts)
3. Proven? They brag about their war crimes in public press conferences.
Fri Apr 10, 2026, 10:49 AM
8 hrs ago

The way they killed the Venezuelans in the ocean was clearly a war crime, and the crimes were gleefully recounted by Hegseth, Trump and others.

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