Operation Epic Fury and the Deadly Strike on an Iranian School

On the morning of February twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-six, at approximately nine forty-five AM local time, the United States, in partnership with Israel, launched Operation Epic Fury, commencing the twenty twenty-six Iran war.

Within the first hour of the US Israeli offensive into southern Iran, three BGM one O nine Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from United States Navy warships impacted the elementary school between ten twenty-three and ten forty-five AM local time.

Because the war was commenced mid-morning on a Saturday, the first day of the Iranian work week, students were in attendance at the school.

Dep- despite an attempted evacuation of the school, at the time of the first cruise missile's impact, between a hundred and seventy and two hundred and sixty-four students were present in the facility, most of whom were girls between the ages of seven and twelve.

Whereas it is unclear how many casualties were inflicted by the first impact, which caused a partial destruction of the structure and the collapse of its roof, it is reported that students were then sheltered in a prayer room deeper in the facility,

waiting for rescuers when a second and a third missile in rapid succession impacted the building.

Reported death tolls from the strikes on the elementary school indicate that at least a hundred and fifty-six civilians were killed, with some reports suggesting the civilian death toll surpassed a hundred and seventy.

Those killed include at least a hundred and twenty schoolchildren, twenty-six teachers, seven parents attempting to evacuate their children.