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George Galloway talks about the extensive battering Israel is receiving through incoming Iranian missiles but says there is extensive Israeli censorship that forces the media not to show the extent of the destruction. Anyone showing such pictures would go to prison for five years. “Israel is getting a bloody good hiding but you don’t know that,” he says.
A view of the destruction in Israel by Iranian missiles
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The UN on Wednesday warned that more than 1,500 Palestinians have already been displaced in the occupied West Bank in 2026, reaching 90% of the total figure recorded in 2025.
Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference that “new figures indicate that more than 180 Palestinians have been displaced due to settler attacks and access restrictions across the West Bank since the onset of the regional escalation,” bringing “the total number of Palestinians displaced within this context so far this year to more than 1,500 people, 90% of the number for all of last year.”
“Palestinians’ access to their places of work and where they receive services continues to be impeded by tightened movement restrictions imposed by Israeli security forces,” he said.
Noting that such Israeli restrictions “largely impede movements between cities and keep the iron gates at the entrances of many villages closed,” he added that “high levels of violence are persisting.”
He further stressed that “more than 40% of those displaced are children and that displacement deepens people’s reliance on humanitarian aid support and is often associated with the loss of economic livelihoods.”
OCHA called again “for the protection of Palestinians in the West Bank and for the perpetrators of violence against them to be held to account.”
On the situation in the Gaza Strip, Dujarric emphasized Israel’s “ongoing restrictions on aid operations,” which, he said, “are worsening an already critical humanitarian situation.”
“One example we can share with you today is about the growing number of generator failures in hospitals due to the lack of spare parts and lubricating oil,” he said.
Dujarric also reported “high levels of infections spread by insects that can be found in the many displacement sites throughout Gaza,” saying “nearly 23,000 suspected cases were recorded last month alone,” while “supplies of hygiene kits, insecticides and scabies treatment remain critically low, limiting our ability to respond.”
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A preliminary US military investigation has concluded that American forces were responsible for a Feb. 28 deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school, the New York Times reported Wednesday, citing US officials and others familiar with the findings.
The strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school was the result of a targeting error in the early hours of the war that Israel and the US started against Iran, the investigation found. Officers at US Central Command (CENTCOM) generated strike coordinates using outdated Defense Intelligence Agency data that still identified the school building as part of an adjacent Iranian military base, a designation that was no longer accurate.
The Pentagon did not respond to Anadolu’s request for comment.
The findings align with a series of earlier analyses. CBS News had reported that a preliminary US assessment found American forces were “likely” responsible, citing possible use of dated intelligence.
The report aligns with earlier analyses by the Bellingcat investigative outlet and the New York Times, both of which found evidence that a Tomahawk missile, a weapon only the US is known to possess among the warring parties, struck a compound of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near the school.
US President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the strike, saying Tehran’s munitions lacked accuracy. The attack killed scores, many of them children, according to Iranian officials.
Multiple outlets, similar conclusions
Several other outlets also pointed to US responsibility based on satellite imagery, geolocated videos and expert assessments.
The Wall Street Journal, citing an American official, reported that US military investigators believe American forces were likely responsible, though no conclusion had been reached. The official claimed there were indications that the building had been used as an IRGC headquarters.
The New York Times, drawing on satellite imagery and geolocated videos, found the school was struck at the same time as precision hits on an adjacent IRGC naval base, with a former US Air Force official suggesting the most likely explanation was “target misidentification.”
BBC Verify reported multiple impact sites and burn marks around the school and nearby IRGC facilities, with analysts saying the damage pattern suggested the use of a penetrating munition.
A reconstruction by Britain’s The Guardian also placed the school directly adjacent to an IRGC compound, separated only by a wall built in recent years.
Middle East Eye, citing survivors and first responders, reported a possible “double-tap” strike — a second explosion hitting the area shortly after the first, striking those who had taken shelter.
CBC News noted the attack coincided with the first wave of US-Israeli strikes across southern Iran.
UNESCO described the killing of students as a “grave violation” of protections for educational facilities under international humanitarian law and called for a full investigation. No side has formally claimed responsibility.
