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Kid Berwyn

(24,144 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:16 AM Mar 5

'Beyond Evil': Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike

Choosing children to target and terrorize a nation is NAZI.





‘Beyond Evil’: Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike

“The second bomb hit,” said one paramedic. “Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”


Brett Wilkins
CommonDreams.org, March 04, 2026

As the US and Israel continued to wage war on Iran Wednesday, paramedics and victims’ relatives said last weekend’s bombing of an elementary in southern Iran was a so-called “double-tap” airstrike—a common tactic used by US, Israeli, and Russian forces by which attackers bomb a target and then follow up with a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.

Iranian officials said that around 175 people—most of them young children—were killed when the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab was hit Saturday by what they said was a US-Israeli attack

“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” said one of two Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) paramedics who spoke to Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children,” the paramedic added. “But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived... Some parents recognized their children only because of the gold bracelets they were wearing.”

Excerpt...

“When I saw her smile after coming home from work, all my pain disappeared,” the father added. “Now I don’t know what to do with this pain. I don’t know how to live with this.”

Continues...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-school-double-tap



The symbolism of pedophile protectors killing children to advance their self-interests should not be lost on anyone. ALL who lied America into war and mass murder of innocent people must face justice in a United States court and then before the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
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'Beyond Evil': Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Mar 5 OP
Was target 'painted' for missle strike by Netanyahu's people? Attilatheblond Mar 5 #1
Intentional Sequoia Mar 5 #8
Not really. Ms. Toad Mar 5 #30
If we dont get justice for these families, the terrorism Ilsa Mar 5 #2
snuffing um out Whip-poor-will Mar 5 #3
So is sinking a ship with torpedoes and Ferrets are Cool Mar 5 #4
But FDR wasn't for sinking German vessels in wartime? WarGamer Mar 5 #20
Kick dalton99a Mar 5 #5
The perps were, of course, "Just following orders". Ping Tung Mar 5 #6
The perps were the ones who ordered it iemanja Mar 5 #10
The lack of coverage is sickening malaise Mar 5 #7
Sickening barbarism democrank Mar 5 #9
I can easily envision Hegseth ordering this kind of attack on little girls. NH Ethylene Mar 5 #11
Men who can rape little girls or cover up for rapists malaise Mar 5 #12
Just like the boat strikes. It was pure maleficence from Trump and Netanyahu. ChicagoTeamster Mar 5 #13
With Western weapons and approval malaise Mar 5 #14
Already happening I'm afraid. AloeVera Mar 5 #21
They would have to have people on the ground for that. ChicagoTeamster Mar 5 #22
EVERY Republican... GiqueCee Mar 5 #15
I guess we can't count on the military to uphold the Constitution. 1WorldHope Mar 5 #16
I smell Hegseth... Fil1957 Mar 5 #17
Hegseth: "This was never meant to be a fair fight and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, chia Mar 5 #18
Let this sink in. sheshe2 Mar 5 #19
Sure sounds like a war crime to me. (nt) Pinback Mar 5 #27
Shades of the 2025 IDF strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis Rob H. Mar 5 #23
263 dead or wounded the vast majority were girls between 7 and 12 years old. Botany Mar 5 #24
Some Say They Heard The Voices, Still Others Saw The Signs, Sounds Like Some Other Story Where The Blood Turns Into Wine MayReasonRule Mar 5 #25
Brilliant malaise Mar 5 #29
You're Very Kind To Say So, Thank You. I Wept When I Wrote It, I Weep As I Type It, I Weep As I Read It MayReasonRule Mar 5 #31
Whatever happened to that rule about refusing unlawful orders? Ocelot II Mar 5 #26
Meh malaise Mar 5 #28
American patriotism as currently practiced sacrifices common humanity. hay rick Mar 6 #32

Attilatheblond

(8,747 posts)
1. Was target 'painted' for missle strike by Netanyahu's people?
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:20 AM
Mar 5

One might suspect killing young girls in Iran is a form of genocide. I would not put that past him.

Ms. Toad

(38,535 posts)
30. Not really.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:31 PM
Mar 5

Of those named so far, about event split between boys and girls.

On Wednesday, Middle East Eye published a partial list containing the names and ages of 51 children—26 boys and 25 girls—one infant, and eight women killed in the school strike.

Ilsa

(64,274 posts)
2. If we dont get justice for these families, the terrorism
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:21 AM
Mar 5

might start again. Kegsbreath's "warrior ethos" looks more like murder.

Ferrets are Cool

(22,858 posts)
4. So is sinking a ship with torpedoes and
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:33 AM
Mar 5

Watching the "survivors" drown while you do nothing. tRumps America is pure evil.

democrank

(12,528 posts)
9. Sickening barbarism
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:01 PM
Mar 5

“Double - tap”…..how understated. Purposeful massacre is more like it.

Trump and Netanyahu….twin soulless criminals.


NH Ethylene

(31,327 posts)
11. I can easily envision Hegseth ordering this kind of attack on little girls.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:07 PM
Mar 5

And we wonder why an Iranian might say "death to America."

ChicagoTeamster

(839 posts)
13. Just like the boat strikes. It was pure maleficence from Trump and Netanyahu.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:14 PM
Mar 5

All you have to do s look at what Israel did to GAZA and you can see what they plan to do to Iran.

AloeVera

(4,202 posts)
21. Already happening I'm afraid.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:04 PM
Mar 5
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1322&pid=108419

They'll trot out the human shields and terror tunnels underground caves and facilities excuse anytime now.

Or maybe they won't even bother. They don't have to answer to anybody now.

GiqueCee

(3,972 posts)
15. EVERY Republican...
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:25 PM
Mar 5

... that Satan ever defecated will answer for this. Deliberately murdering little girls was a lifelong dream of Trump's, if we're to believe some of the recent Revelations in the Trump/Epstein files, and I see no reason to NOT believe them.

chia

(2,799 posts)
18. Hegseth: "This was never meant to be a fair fight and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down,
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:49 PM
Mar 5

which is exactly how it should be."

sheshe2

(97,226 posts)
19. Let this sink in.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:57 PM
Mar 5
“double-tap” airstrike—a common tactic used by US, Israeli, and Russian forces by which attackers bomb a target and then follow up with a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.

Rob H.

(5,829 posts)
23. Shades of the 2025 IDF strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:09 PM
Mar 5

that killed 22 people, including 5 journalists. Double-tap strikes are a hallmark of IDF tactics: attack, then attack again to kill rescue workers in order to maximize casualties.

Botany

(77,124 posts)
24. 263 dead or wounded the vast majority were girls between 7 and 12 years old.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:09 PM
Mar 5

168 dead and 95 wounded. (3 days old #s) The number of dead has probably gone up because
some of the wounded have no doubt passed by now because of their injuries.

Double tap is exactly what Russia has been doing in Ukraine. On good Friday ‘25 Russia hit the
Ukrainian City of Kharkiv with a missile as people were leaving church services and then hit the
same area in the same city with a second missile in order to get the first responders too.





MayReasonRule

(4,095 posts)
25. Some Say They Heard The Voices, Still Others Saw The Signs, Sounds Like Some Other Story Where The Blood Turns Into Wine
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:10 PM
Mar 5
They'll toast the wine of wartime
The finest as they serve
The holiest communion
For sacrilegious words





These are war crimes.
These are crimes against humanity.

When we take The House and Senate, incentivize and empower the very populace currently being abused with the needed resources for bringing hese marauding Nazis to justice

MayReasonRule

(4,095 posts)
31. You're Very Kind To Say So, Thank You. I Wept When I Wrote It, I Weep As I Type It, I Weep As I Read It
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 04:56 PM
Mar 5

Here's the full poem:

There ain't no turning back
There're only new directions
Though the instruments may change
Bet they keep the big brass section

For the hardness of your hearts
The lives spent toiling, suffering
Ought not law just serve mankind?
No I don't mean pluck and stuff him

Some say they heard the voices
Still others saw the signs
Sounds like some other story
Where the blood turns into wine

They toast the wine of wartime
The finest as they serve
The holiest communion
For sacrilegious words

malaise

(295,377 posts)
28. Meh
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:30 PM
Mar 5

They violated that rule in your home state let alone in Iran, Venezuela, the Caribbean Sea or the Pacific Ocean.

hay rick

(9,551 posts)
32. American patriotism as currently practiced sacrifices common humanity.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:59 AM
Mar 6

Handwringing about 6 American combatants being killed is mandatory. Mourning the deaths of over 100 school children is not part of the warrior ethos. Concern is neatly avoided by citing the inevitability of "collateral damage." The double tap might offer a clue as to which side of the good/evil contest Americans have chosen.

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