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Partial daily report based on two accepted Middle East sources; broader coverage was degraded by 31 collection failures.
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Shafaq News (S2), citing Lebanese media, reported that an Israeli strike targeted an ambulance team heading toward earlier strikes in Nabatiyeh Al-Fawqa; the team escaped unharmed. It also reported strikes in the Marjayoun, Nabatiyeh and Tyre districts and detonations in Al-Mansouri. No immediate casualty or damage figures were available. Israel’s military separately said two soldiers were lightly wounded by an explosive device and that it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in response.
Source published ·No source-grounded map location was approved for this event.
Shafaq News (S4) reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot of double standards over human rights. Araghchi invoked a US strike on a girls’ school in Minab. According to the outlet, a UN fact-finding mission reported more than 150 deaths, including 120 children, and found reasonable grounds to believe US strikes on the school and another civilian site constituted war crimes.
Source published ·میناب, دهستان حومه, بخش مرکزی شهرستان میناب, شهرستان میناب, استان هرمزگان, ایران · city
OpenStreetMap · the Feb. 28 strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran