Iran war: Israel launches more attacks on Tehran, Beirut

"Israeli military pounds Beirut's southern suburbs. An earlier mass evacuation order caused panicked residents to flee. Hospitals in the area evacuated staff and patients ahead of the strikes. Israel and the US launch widespread strikes overnight on 'infrastructure in Tehran' as the war in the Middle East enters its seventh day."

"US military investigators believe US forces were likely responsible for a strike on a girls' elementary school in Iran that killed scores of children. The officials stressed that military investigators hadn't finished their investigation or reached a final conclusion. If a US role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of US conflicts in the Middle East."

"The New York Times published a lengthy analysis suggesting that the strike on the school in Minab was 'part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said US forces were operating.' This suggests that US forces were 'most likely to have carried out the strike.' Iranian officials said the strike on Saturday, February 28, killed at least 175 people, many of them children."

Israel launched broad waves of strikes targeting infrastructure in Tehran and Beirut's southern suburbs as military operations in the Middle East intensified. Mass evacuation orders prompted residents to flee affected areas, with hospitals evacuating staff and patients ahead of strikes. US military investigators determined that US forces were probably responsible for a February 28 strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 175 people, many of them children. The strike occurred near an adjacent naval base where US forces were operating. If confirmed, this would represent one of the worst civilian casualty incidents in decades of US Middle East operations. Britain increased defensive measures on Cyprus amid ongoing regional tensions.

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