On the night of Friday, March 6, to Saturday, March 7, 2026, Israeli troops and helicopters conducted a commando operation near Nabi Sheet, reportedly searching for remains of the missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. Clashes with local fighters were reported during the operation, which included helicopter landings and intense airstrikes before Israeli forces withdrew. Their goal was the Al-Chokr family cemetery, in the heart of the Bekaa Valley. **Background on Ron Arad:** Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator, went missing over Lebanon in 1986 after his plane was shot down. Captured by Lebanese militias, his fate remains unknown, and Israel has carried out multiple operations over the decades to locate him or recover his remains. He is officially considered Missing in Action (MIA). **Details of the Operation:** Four Israeli helicopters were spotted over Khraibeh-Baalbek at 10:50 pm, near the Syrian-Lebanese border. Two Israeli helicopters landed near Nabi Chit and Khraibeh, dropping soldiers who moved toward a cemetery in Nabi Chit to search a grave suspected of holding Arad’s remains while intense airstrikes hit nearby villages. The Israeli soldiers briefly searched a section of the Al-Chokr family cemetery before clashes broke out with local residents and Hezbollah fighters. Witnesses noted that the Israeli soldiers used vehicles resembling Lebanese army and Hezbollah vehicles and spoke Arabic with a Lebanese accent (crime of perfidy). **Impact of Airstrikes:** Hezbollah sources stated the Israeli Air Force carried out 40–50 airstrikes, including one targeting the central square of Nabi Chit to prevent reinforcements from intervening. The operation included heavy bombardment and multiple air raids, severely affecting infrastructure in Nabi Sheet The bombardment left a massive crater, gutted buildings, and damaged vehicles. Portraits of "martyrs" from the 2024 Israel-Hezbollah conflict remain on some buildings. **Casualties:** The fighting reportedly left three Lebanese soldiers and 41 residents of the Bekaa Valley dead, according to the Lebanese army and Ministry of Health. No Israeli casualties were reported.

On MARCH 4, 2026, at least nine people were killed and 15 others wounded on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek; Israeli warplanes struck a multi-story residential building housing six families. Most of the structure was reduced to rubble, while a remaining section was left heavily damaged and on the verge of collapse. Rescue teams continued searching for survivors beneath the debris.

On March 2, 2026, around 12:00, a settler entered an olive grove and began work to open an unauthorized access road on privately owned Palestinian land. Residents went down to drive him away, reportedly by throwing stones, according to a security source. Live fire was then opened toward the Palestinians. Video documentation shows a settler carrying a long firearm aiming his weapon toward a Palestinian residential home, accompanied by several young settlers; the footage does not indicate that their lives were under threat. Evidence collected by police at the scene later indicated that the shooter was not a civilian but a regional defense soldier. Three otherswere wounded by the gunfire, including a third brother. It should be noted that West Bank villages are currently under full closure since March 1 (Israeli-US war on Iran), and ambulance passage through checkpoints requires prior coordination. According to reports, Israeli army forces who arrived after the shooting used crowd-control measures against Palestinians and began making arrests. Eyewitnesses reported the military arrested more than 20 Palestinians in the village. Because of the closure Israel has imposed on the West Bank, ambulances were unable to reach and evacuate the wounded for over an hour. The detainees were released only later, once details of the incident became clear. After the deaths of the two brothers who had attempted to defend the grove were confirmed, heavy engineering machinery returned to the site. The excavator was later confiscated by Israeli army forces. **Casulaties :** According to the Red Crescent, five people were shot: 1) Two Palestinian brothers, Mohammed Taha Maamar (52), who was shot in the head, 2) and Fahim Taha Maamar (48), who was shot in the pelvis, were killed by Israeli settler gunfire when in their house. Resuscitation efforts were carried out, but in vain. 3) a 30-year-old man was shot in the shoulder, 4) a 32-year-old man was shot in the thigh, 5) a 15-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder. The deaths of two of the wounded men, who were brothers, were confirmed shortly afterward. **Names of the martyrs:** Mohammad Taha Mo’amar, 52 Faheem Taha Mo’amar, 48 **Israeli Army investigation:** The IDF said Tuesday that it was investigating that incident as well, probing an IDF reservist suspected of committing the shooting. Israeli forces also dismantled an illegal Jewish outpost near Qaryut overnight Wednesday-Thursday, citing “violent incidents” that had originated in the area. The reservist suspected in the Qaryut shooting is a member of one of the IDF’s so-called area defense forces, known by the Hebrew acronym Hagmar. Dozens of soldiers from such units, which comprise local settlers serving in reserve duty, have been dismissed for violations, including attacks on Palestinians. **Investigation of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights:** "According to information gathered by PCHR and eyewitness accounts, at around 12:00 on Monday, 02 March 2026, four settlers, including the guard of Shilo settlement established on the lands of Qaryout village, southeast of Nablus, headed towards Taha Mount, south of the village, accompanied by an excavator. The excavator began working on a plot of land belonging to Nour Freiz ‘Azem. When several Palestinian residents approached to see what the settlers were doing, the settlement’s guard and another settler with a gun advanced towards them and attempted to arrest Nabil Jamil Abu Morah, a resident of the area. His sons—Mohammed, Fahim, and Jamil—intervened to prevent his arrest. The settlement’s guard then opened fire to intimidate the residents, threatened them and photographed them with his mobile phone. Around five minutes later, the guard returned with more than 50 settlers, who began throwing stones at Mohammed Nabil Abu Morah (52) and damaging his property. Mohammed and his brothers, supported by their neighbors, confronted the settlers by throwing stones in response. The settlement’s guard and another settler took cover behind an olive tree about 20 meters away and opened fire at Mohammed, shooting him in the head. His brother Fahim (48) was also shot in the pelvis. Their brother Jamil attempted to evacuate them with the assistance of neighbors and placed them in a civilian vehicle to transport them to Qablan Clinic. During the continued settlers’ attack, Jamil was struck by two bullets in his right leg. All three were transferred to Qablan Clinic and later referred to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus. Two other Palestinians, including a child, were also wounded in their limbs after the armed settler accompanying the settlement’s guard opened fire at them. At approximately 13:20, medical personnel at Rafidia Governmental Hospital declared the deaths of Mohammed and Fahim after they succumbed to their wounds"

On the evening of 28 February 2026, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Dura, south of Hebron, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at residents, reportedly under the pretext that stones had been thrown at them. During the operation, a Palestinian civilian was shot and critically wounded. Muhammad Jihad Masalmah, 25, was struck by live fire in the abdomen while leaving a mosque after performing Tarawih prayers. He was immediately transferred to hospital, where his condition was described as extremely critical. Footage published by yaffa_ps shows Israeli soldiers surrounding and roughly handling an injured young Palestinian man on the ground. A soldier was seen kicking the wounded Palestinian as he bleeds before ambulance transfert him to the Hospital. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday, 1th of March, that Masalmah died from his wounds sustained during the raid. His death was confirmed the morning following the incursion. Masalmah’s funeral is scheduled to take place in the afternoon, with his body departing from Al-Ahli Hospital before burial in his hometown of Dura. **The Name of the martyr:** Muhammad Jihad Masalmah, 25 years old

On February 28, 2026, at 10:45 a.m., the first day of the Israel-USA attack on Iran, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, was struck by a missile during morning classes while approximately 170 students were inside the building. The impact reduced the school to rubble, trapping many children beneath collapsed concrete structures. Local residents reportedly began rescue efforts immediately, digging through debris with their bare hands as parents searched the ruins calling out their children’s names. According to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, at least 108 people were killed, many of them schoolgirls between seven and twelve years old. A spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society later confirmed a final death toll of 108 schoolgirls, representing more than half of the students enrolled at the school. Dozens of victims were initially reported missing following the strike. Videos circulating on social media and described as showing the immediate aftermath depict smoke rising from burned walls, debris scattered across nearby roads, and large crowds gathered at the scene in visible distress, with screams audible in the background. The Guardian reported that the footage and casualty figures could not immediately be independently verified. However, the Persian fact-checking organization Factnameh cross-referenced the video with known photographs of the school site and concluded that the footage was authentic, while Reuters also verified that the video originated from the school location. Responsibility for the strike remains unclear. A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that authorities were “looking into” the reports. The school is reported to be located adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks, a factor that has raised questions regarding possible targeting considerations. Hossein Kermanpour, spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, described the bombing on X as “the most bitter news” of the conflict so far, adding: “God knows how many more children’s bodies they will pull from under the rubble.” Speaking to Drop Site, Shariatmadar stated: “I cannot understand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this. We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.” The strike would constitute the largest mass-casualty event of the U.S.-led attack to date and the deadliest attack on a school by bomboing or shelling in the XXe and XXIe centuries. **Geolocation** : next to Resalat Boulevard, Minab, #Iran 27.109834, 57.084748 The school appears to be adjacent (600m) to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. This proximity is used in the pro-Isreaeli propaganda to explained the airstrikes. **On March 1**, The Guardian reports that the Israeli-Us "strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media" **Statement of Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesperson for US Central Command:** The US was “aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations. We take these reports seriously and are looking into them.” **Official Responses**: US and Israeli officials said they were unaware a school had been hit event if investigation evidence disputes these claims. **Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai statement: ** *“They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future. Today, their lives were brutally cut short. Justice and accountability must follow. All states and parties must uphold their obligations under international law to protect civilians and safeguard schools.”* **On March 3, 2026**, State media showed hundreds packing the streets of the southern city of Minab to mourn scores ⁠of girls killed in the bombing of a girls' school on the war's first day, by far the worst of several reported attacks to hit civilian targets. The girls' small coffins, draped with Iranian flags, were passed from a truck and borne by the crowd across a sea of upraised hands towards the grave site. The U.N. human rights office demanded an investigation into the strike, which its spokesperson called "absolutely horrific". **Legal & Human Rights Assessment:** Human rights monitors called the bombing a possible serious violation of international humanitarian law. Children and teachers are legally classified as protected persons in armed conflict. **Investigation piece of Al Jazeera:** Key Investigation Findings : Satellite imagery and video analysis show the school was directly struck, not damaged accidentally and two separate missile impacts were identified: one on a nearby military base, another one on the school itself. This contradicts claims that damage came from debris or secondary explosions. The school had been physically separated from the adjacent military complex since 2016. It had an independent walls, several civilian entrances, playgrounds and school facilities. It functioned as a civilian primary school for at least 10 years. Under international humanitarian law, it therefore remained a protected civilian site, even though many students were children of military personnel. Some pro-Israeli accounts claimed the site was part of an IRGC military base, but critical contradiction highlighted that the missiles hit the military base, and the school, but avoided a civilian clinic located between them that opened in 2025. This suggests attackers had accurate, updated targeting information, raising questions about Serious intelligence failure, or deliberate targeting of the school. The attackers’ ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios, So, the evidence leaves two possible explanations, both unequivocally condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment. Even if this school operated as an educational institution serving families (including military families), legal classification remained civilian. At least, reverse-image searches disproved claims that destruction came from a failed Iranian missile, the viral images was traced to a different city (Zanjan). **Investigation by Nilo Tabrizy,** (author and investigative journalist who has worked extensively with open-source material to report on Iran for The Washington Post and The New York Times) About who carried out the strike. "Weapon fragments or visuals showing the exact moment of impact can often provide clues as to the type of munition used, thus revealing the country responsible. Without them, the question remains open. Information wars over this strike began quickly. Some accounts, aligned with the camp that supports the restoration of Iran’s monarchy and installing the son of the last shah, Reza Pahlavi, began confidently asserting that it was a failed rocket launch by the IRGC from the nearby base. This narrative began spreading alongside an image that posters claimed was the missile launch. This was quickly debunked by Ali Noorani on X, who confirmed that this image was actually from the town of Zanjan, roughly 800 miles away from Minab. In addition, the image that was central to the failed missile claim showed snowcapped mountains, which would not be visible in the southern town of Minab. The following day, on March 1, more pro-Pahlavi accounts then claimed that the IRGC had confessed to mistakenly bombing the school. The claim was made through a screenshot that people online said came from official Iranian state channels. But this too was debunked, this time by Jasper Nathaniel, who confirmed that the dubious assertion was posted on a Telegram channel supportive of the monarchy. A source told me that this tragic airstrike was perhaps an error on the part of the U.S. and Israel. The school is located right next to an IRGC navy base, but it’s hard to miss the brightly colored walls of the school that were visible on Google Earth as far back as eight years ago." **Weapon used:** The area was targeted by several missiles, with at least eight buildings or locations impacted. One of the videos released on March 8 shows a Tomahawk missile—a weapon used only by the United States in this conflict—striking the site after the school had already been bombed. This provides an indication of who may have been responsible for targeting the school, suggesting the strike could have been carried out by the United States rather than Israel. [https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Planet-Labs.jpg](https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Planet-Labs.jpg) Asked by a reporter from The Times on Saturday, March 8, if the United States had bombed the school, President Trump said: “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.” He said, “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was standing beside Mr. Trump, said the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.” **On March 10,** Photos posted by Iranian state media show debris from the Feb. 28 Minab strike, bearing serial numbers and components consistent with a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile, potentially linking the deadly school and naval base attack to American precision-guided munitions.U.S. Tomahawk Evidence. Key components include: SDL Antenna (satellite data link) stamped with a 2014 Department of Defense contract number and manufacturer Ball Aerospace Technologies, now part of BAE Systems. Another component stamped “Made in USA”, produced by Globe Motors, Ohio, responsible for actuator motors controlling guidance fins. Trevor Ball, former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician and Bellingcat researcher, confirmed these parts match Tomahawk missile components previously documented in Yemen and Syria. Open-source databases corroborate these findings, showing identical remnants in prior conflicts.  **Double tap:** On March 4, a Middle East Eye investigation on the ground, gathering the testimonies of the victims conclued that The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye. “When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” one of the Red Crescent medics said, citing conversations he had at the time with survivors. “The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.” **On March 8, a Bellincat investigation, checked by the visual team of the New York Times,** showed that one of the weapons used during the strike of the area is a Tomahawk. "A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed. The video, uploaded on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles. A body of evidence assembled by The Times — including satellite imagery, social media posts and other verified videos — indicates that the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base. The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps".

On February 28, 2026, a 19-year-old Palestinian, Tamer Ismail Qeisieh, from the town of Al-Dhahiriya, south of Hebron, died on Saturday evening of wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli occupation forces. Qeisieh had been critically injured three days earlier by Israeli gunfire near the segregation wall adjacent to the town of Yatta. He was pronounced dead this evening as a result of his injuries. **Name of the martyr:** Tamer Ismail Qaisiya, 19

On February 28, 2026, a group of Israeli settlers backed by soliders and military armored vehicle attacked the town of Al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, by foot and driving ATV; They seized a horse and a foal from in front of a local home. They roamed the streets near residents' homes, causing fear and disruption before stealing the two animals. Israeli occupation stormed the town to provide protection for the settlers. This happened while warning sirens were sounding across the country following Iran being attacked by Israel and the United States, and the Iranian retaliation.

On February 27, 2026, Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks Friday on villages south of Nablus, targeting property and clashing with residents and foreign activists, according to local officials and medical sources. The assaults were concentrated in the villages of Jalud and Qusra, where settlers allegedly set fire to buildings and threw stones at homes in the outskirts of the village and set fire to a storage facility and a vehicle belonging to resident Imad Hammoud. The blaze caused damage before residents were able to bring it under control. Settlers also hurled stones at several homes, shattering windows and causing property damage. Just before this pogrom, the settlers passed through Qusra, were they assaulted two foreign activists. They were injured in the Ras Al-Ain area of the village, local sources said. Previously on February 25, 2026, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents in the Wadi area in Jalud, prompting several young men to confront them and leading to confrontations. One vehicles were damaged by rocks.

On February 27, 2026 **Northern Gaza:** Hossam Abu Khousa, 43, was fatally shot by Israeli forces in the Al-Atatra area of Beit Lahia. **Central Gaza:** At dawn, five Palestinians were killed and several more were wounded in Israeli shelling in central and southern Gaza. **Southern Gaza:** An Israeli military drone targeted a tent inside a school sheltering displaced persons in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex, killing one and injuring several others. The Nasser Medical Complex confirmed the arrival of one fatality and three injured individuals following an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced civilians near the hospital, west of the city.

**Gaza City:** At approximately 1:00 p.m. today in Gaza, Israel carried out a terrorist strike, killing two Palestinians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City: Mohammad Fares Abu Jabal and Ali Fadel al-Burdini. **Southern Gaza:** The martyr Hassan Abdulrahman Al-Lahham (45 years old) arrived at Nasser Medical Complex from the Qizan Rashwan area, after being shot by fire from a ‘quadcopter’ drone south of the city of Khan Younis. A fourth Palestinian, Ahmad Yahia Rasras, died today from wounds sustained earlier. Additionally, the body of a woman was recovered in Khan Younis. Her identity has not yet been confirmed. **Martys names:** 1. Mohammad Fares Abu Jabal 2. Ali Fadel al-Burdini 3. Hasan Abdel-Rahman al-Laham