According to a report by The New York Times on July 31 local time, using satellite images and expert opinions, the US military attacked a residential building on Qeshm Island in southern Iran with one of its most powerful non-nuclear bombs on the evening of July 30, resulting in the death of three people.
Iranian officials stated that several residential houses were damaged in this air strike. Among those affected, parents and a 2-year-old child died, while two other children were injured but rescued from the ruins.
The New York Times noted that the diameter of the crater and the debris from the ammunition indicated that the U.S. military used a heavy MK-84 aerial bomb weighing approximately 2000 pounds (907 kilograms) in this attack. The report stated that no signs of any military facilities were found in the area struck, and the attack occurred in a densely populated region.
U.S. Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins told The New York Times that high-level officials are aware of the attack and are conducting an investigation. He also insisted that the U.S. will never target civilians as targets of attacks.
On February 28th this year, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. On the first day of the war, an Iranian elementary school was targeted by air strikes, resulting in about 170 deaths, most of whom were students, with hundreds more injured. Several media outlets reported later, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the U.S. military database had warned that information regarding several Iranian targets was seriously outdated. However, senior U.S. military officials ignored this warning and approved strikes against multiple targets, including this elementary school.
As of now, according to reports by American media last month, the US military has delayed the investigation into this incident for several months.
