US-Israeli Attacks Have Damaged or Destroyed 600 Schools in Iran

The US and Israel have damaged or destroyed more than 85,000 civilian structures in Iran since late February, including 64,583 homes, 600 schools and 281 medical facilities, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said on Wednesday. 

Pir-Hossein Kolivand, president of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, said missiles had also hit 17 rescue points and 12 rescue vehicles. He described the US and Israel’s actions as “war crimes”.

The figures come after the official death toll in Iran passed 1,500. The vast majority of the casualties have been civilians, including the roughly 170 schoolchildren whom the US killed in Minab on the first day of the war. Amnesty International called the Minab attack a ”serious breach of international humanitarian law”. 

Kolivand referenced a US-Israeli strike against a Red Crescent ambulance in the city of Lar, southern Iran, earlier this month. “Nothing at all was left of the ambulance while they were transporting injured people,” he said in a video. 

Over the weekend, Iran launched a fresh wave of retaliatory attacks against Israel, reportedly injuring around 180 people. Fifteen Israelis have been killed by Iranian attacks in this conflict, while commentators have noted that Israel’s air defence systems, the most well-known of which is the Iron Dome, have been badly weakened by the war.