Minab, Hormozgan · 28 February 2026
They were at school that morning.
Shajareh Tayyebeh was an ordinary primary school in a small city near the Strait of Hormuz. Girls were taught upstairs, boys below. The walls were painted with flowers and balloons. On the first morning of the war, missiles struck it — more than once.
This site exists so they are remembered as children first: by name, by class, by the lives they were in the middle of living.
156
people killed
120
children, aged 6 to 13
26
teachers, all women
95
injured
Final figures from the Minab prosecutor's office, 9 April 2026. Among the dead were seven parents, a school bus driver, a clinic pharmacy technician, and the unborn child of a teacher six months pregnant.
A handful of the names
What the investigations found
The United Nations, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, Bellingcat, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times and Sky News all concluded that US forces struck the school with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The Pentagon has not released its findings and no one has been held responsible.