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The casualty numbers have risen - it's already 165 people dead from this strike. :(
Re "Hamas tunnel" - there was an IRGC base 600 meters away.
Since the US military is unlikely to release the data, we probably cannot know if a weapon malfunctioned or the strike planner clicked on the school.
In an ideal world, if a strike planner knowingly clicks on a school, they go to prison. If they aren't given the information to tell apart a school, their boss goes to prison. Unfortunately in the current-time US, as things are - nobody will be held accountable. :(
In an ideal world they would both be in prison regardless of who the bombs killed. Illegal war of aggression is a crime against humanity.
The other option is that this was done by Israel, and we know from Gaza that they actually target children for the Terror effect and because they see Muslims as "vermin" so don't really care that they're children.
I could totally see the Israeli military doing this on purpose "to break the spirit of Iranians" - I mean, the rest of the World has not punished Israel for doing exactly this in Gaza multiple times, so from that side they would get no downsides from committing more of such attrocities, whilst on the side of Israeli Public Opinion, given how widespread and normalized Racism is there (especially Islamophobia, with Muslims commonly described as "violent" and even "vermin"), they will probably get an uptick in public support from this.
My personal theories on this are that it was either some American military person choosing a target based on satellite imagery and mistakenly picking the set of "buildings with a large patio" which is the school rather than the IRGC base or the Israelis purposefully doing it because they can and for them all Iranians are "vermin" hence the young ones too are just more "vermin", not children.
I don't think the American Military is quite to the point of chosing to murder a school filled with children (though they have quite the track record from way back when they were droning Afghanistan of not caring all that much about large numbers of civilian casualties), but the Israeli Military have a lot of recent practice with purposefully targetting children of "vermin" races and are pretty much veterans at it.