Schools, Hospitals, Playgrounds: Iran’s Civilian Sites Hit by US-Israeli Strikes

SPOTLIGHT, 9 Mar 2026

Katherine Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service

The interior of Golestan Palace after it was damaged by an Israeli/US strike in Tehran, Iran, 3 Mar 2026
(Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

A 12,000-seat stadium, UNESCO world heritage site and children’s parks are among places attacked last week.

6 Mar 2026 – Since the launch of the US–Israeli onslaught on Iran, the country’s schools, hospitals and even playgrounds have come under attack.

Despite claims by the US and Israel that strikes are solely targeting Iran’s leadership and military infrastructure, Iranians on the ground are seeing their homes, hospitals and schools bombarded.

Many civilians are also dying in the onslaught.

Tasnim news agency puts the civilian death toll at more than 1,230 since the war began on Saturday.

Middle East Eye delves into the damage and death tolls resulting from the attacks:

Schools, kindergartens and parks

Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, Minab, 28 March, 165 killed.

The war on Iran broke out on Saturday and within hours news broke of a deadly strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the city of Minab, in southern Hormozgan province.

According to local authorities, at least 165 people were killed, most of them girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 12.

Witnesses who spoke to MEE revealed that the school was hit with two strikes, the second of which killed sheltering survivors.

Two attacks on the same target are often characterised as “double-tap” strikes, particularly if there is a brief pause between them and medics and other civilians arriving at the scene are killed in the follow-up attack.

Iranians elsewhere in the country have also reported attacks that resembled double-tap strikes.

The US and Israel said they are investigating the incident.

US investigators probing the attack reportedly said they believe that the US military was probably responsible for the strike.

Sports Hall, Lamerd, Fars Province, 28 February, 18 killed.

Hours after the Minab school strike, a missile targeted a sports hall on the outskirts of Lamerd, where dozens of teenagers were gathered for training.

Local officials cited by Iranian media reported that 18 people were killed in the attack, most of them teenage girls.

The missile struck the hall’s roof, reducing the main court, spectator stands and changing rooms to rubble.

Mohammed Saed Khorshedy, a 29-year-old worker at the gym, told Drop Site News: “Sports equipment, balls, tables, barriers flew through the air. Black smoke filled the space. The smell of gunpowder made breathing almost impossible. The screaming began immediately, layered with the sound of debris collapsing and concrete falling from the ceiling.”

Hossein Gholami, whose 16-year-old daughter Zahra was killed in the attack, described how “the smell of blood and burns covered everything”.

“Every time I close my eyes I see her face, her smile, and I hear the sound of the explosion,” Gholami said.

The US and Israel did not issue a statement regarding the attack.

Narmak school, Tehran, two killed

An air strike targeting 72 Square in Tehran’s eastern neighbourhood of Narmak damaged a high school, according to Al Jazeera. Authorities reported that at least two children were killed in the attack.

Kindergarten, Narmak neighbourhood, Tehran, no casualties known

Children’s park, Tehran, no casualties known

Iranian commentator Trita Parsi reported on X on 5 March that an attack targeted a public park in Tehran called “Police Park”.

“It has nothing to do with the police,” Parsi said, suggesting that the attack was evidence that Israel was using AI to identify targets “as it is bombing all government-related buildings”.

“No one in Israel brothered to check and find out that it is just a park,” Parsi added.

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