The double tap to me is really what is cruel. I understand americans don't want to hear it, because they need to believe their military is moral, but a double tap to me show cruelty and willingness to target doctor, nurses, firemen and any person courageous enough to help.

The US military and its sailors already showed me everything i wont to know about them when i saw the report on them shooting torpedoes at capsized boats.

TFA addresses this. It doesn't matter if it was a "mistake": the US acted recklessly "[amounting] to more than mere negligence," even when warned by their own commanders. Ignorance doesn't excuse crimes.

> The UN mission concluded that the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school constituted an indiscriminate attack causing civilian deaths and damage to civilian infrastructure, amounting to a war crime under international law.

> According to the report, the US relied on intelligence suggesting a senior Iranian military commander was present at the site but failed to adequately verify the information before launching the strike.

> Investigators said the failure to update targeting intelligence and confirm the building was a military objective amounted to more than mere negligence.

> “Rather, the US directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting recklessly as regards the possibility that this would happen.”

>NYT did a great analysis essentially concluding it was plausibly a mistake, not an intentional or indiscriminate civilian attack.

See also somewhat overlooked Bloomberg story from June:

>An Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike Probe

>An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said.

>Years before the US attacked Iran at the end of February, an intelligence analyst examining information about potential future strike targets in Iran noticed changes at a site the US had previously characterized as a naval facility belonging to the elite wing of the Iranian military in Minab city in the southeast of the country. It was, in fact, now an elementary school.

>The analyst remarked on changes at the site in a digital intelligence tool, but that tool wasn’t linked up to the official intelligence database that the US uses to develop strike targets and the information was never conveyed to military commanders, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be named discussing sensitive matters.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-26/an-analys...

https://archive.is/LNMMf

> "intentionally targeted building that it knew was non-military and full of civilians"

That formulation guarantees that most war crimes won't be revealed as such. The militaries of the world are operating under top secrecy about what they know, knew or plan on knowing, ditto for their intent. They can claim whatever they please without regard to actual reality, proof is impossible to obtain.

Thus, under this formulation, war crimes are doubly guarded by the secrecy of two kinds of information available only to the perpetrators and protected by harsh laws again any leaks.

Assange knows, he dealt with it but I doubt he or anyone else will try to break the secrecy again given the zeal of his prosecution. To think that what he revealed was an isolated case is laughable.

How can anyone take this argument seriously when the DoW was simultaneously committing dozens of extrajudicial executions of small boat users in the Gulf?

The NYT is not credible here. Remember how they lied to manufacture consent to invade Iraq? This bombing was clearly intentional, just like the previous 3 years worth of war crimes committed by Israel/US.

The page you linked says "Attack type: Double tap missile strike"

Edit: it also explicitly says "double tap" under "Events" and links to the article for "Double-tap strike"

The third missile didn't hit I guess

40 minutes almost exactly. The teachers and surviving students rushed to a prayer hall for protection and then US aircraft (not surface to surface missiles) hit the building a second time killing almost every student and teacher as well as first responders

These are all detailed in both the UN fact finding mission and the US' own investigation.

> Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? It was definitely a mistake.

Unfortunately there's a very large, compelling body of evidence of the US military routinely killing civilians with double tap.

Intentionally.

This is not a negligence, this is a strategy because they get off scot free.

- https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

- https://www.culawreview.org/journal/double-standards-in-inte...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/substantial-evidenc...

- https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2013-08-01/bur...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trumps-boat-bombing...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24557333

- https://lab.imedd.org/en/double-tap-the-tactic-that-is-consi...

Routine. They routinely exterminate civilians with this kind of attacks.

Where have you lived for the last 10 years?

> It is unfathomable that a team of US military (people with families of their own no doubt), would all nod along and agree with your contention.

The Vietnam and Korean wars would like to have a word.

Your belief that the US military is guided by any kind of moral or ethical line is naïve at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726

pattern is there: first hit a public place (market, ...), then when people are scrambling to help, hit them again. "double-tap". Seen in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, ... It's quite cynical, the topic has its own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-tap_strike

I wouldn’t say sadistic, but the military command is very desensitized to death. When all you do is basically kill people, then killing more is like pouring a cup of coffee. It’s just part of your day.

Remember that, prior to this, the US military had been conducting many suspicious strikes on boats in the gulf. It’s not like this came out of nowhere. The culture of negligence and lack of care was well-established.

> Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic?

Yes, I have. In the US. Some were active military personnel at the time.

Some folks are just warped, but some folks change a lot after they have experienced war.

> Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic?

All the time, on the internet. People will reveal the most deranged opinions when they feel immune from consequences for them.

The current president of the USA said he would end the entire Iranian civilization. What do you think that entails?

The accusation is not "let's kill some kids", the accusation was "the target is in a school, bomb it anyway to get the target". Much of these targeted assassinations in the early stage of this campaign consisted of blowing up entire city blocks where a target was believed to be. They actually believed they would get pro-Israel people in the government if they killed the current crop.

The way such things can actually happen is, when the executing side is of the opinion, that the targeted side are lesser beings.

I'd love to live in your fantasy world.

Which america you're talking about? It's pretty normal and expected behaviour from USA.

[flagged]

It's hard to tell here between naivety or deliberate thickness.

The US military has been murdering fishermen off the coast of South America this year, after firing on the boats, disabling them they were shown no quarter and kill shot orders were given AND EXECUTED. Those are WAR CRIMES. The US military has done war crimes alongside the IDF over during this current year in Iran. Furthermore, the President of The United States has publicly stated he will destroy the Iranian civilization. He has ordered new very large bombs be built to Drop on Iran. Do you care to acknowledge these facts?

Did you not see what the same country is supporting in Gaza? The created the largest contingent of child amputees in history, while withholding pain medication to use during the required surgeries. Forcing children to undergo surgery without anesthesia is as evil as it gets

> Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic?

Not met anyone personally like that. But I have made sure that I kept good company.

However, there was precedence in the form of Nazi Germany.

Can we be sure without evidence that this administration did not do it knowingly, given how they have been behaving thus far?

> Highly unlikely an entire chain of military personnel knew it was a school and was like, "yeah get em good, and lets see when they come scrambling in for their kids corpses".

When you phrase it like that, I firmly believe that's exactly what happened.

> Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic?

This isn't necessarily driven by sadism. A sociopath following an amoral (immoral) decision process where they draft a plan to decapitate military leadership by trying to attract them to a place to then kill them would fit the description.

And from a moral point of view, is it justifiable to kill military personnel in a military engagement that's not even framed as a war?

Either the American people do, fast, or they become parties to the crime, fast.

The comment you're replying to doesn't say anything about the UN report, it's just about the double-tap strike.

> It's evident you didn't read the report and submitted a shitpost.

Chill.