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There is mounting outrage this morning over the apparent strike on a girls' elementary school in southern Iran
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Video from Manab shows rescue workers and families searching through rubble, backpacks and schoolbooks scattered amid collapsed walls and smoke
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Iranian officials say the missile hit the Shahara Tayeba girls' school on Saturday morning at the start of the school week as children were in class
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State media reports say at least 175 people, most of them believed to be young schoolgirls, were killed
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Though exact figures are still coming in, and independent verification remains limited
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Iran has condemned the strike as an atrocity. The head of Iran's Red Crescent called the scale of the killings unmatched
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Even in recent conflicts, writing on X, no such crime has ever taken place in history to date, not even in Gaza
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UNESCO, the U.N. Education Agency, said in a statement, the killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning constitutes a grave violation
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of the protection afforded to schools under international humanitarian law. Nobel laureate Malal Youssef Azai called the deaths unconscionable
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and urged the protection of civilians under the law. U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it is aware of reports of civilian harm
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and is reviewing them, but so far has not confirmed responsibility. The Israeli military says it's not aware of strikes in that specific area
