Tel Aviv, 1 March 2026 (dpa/MIA) - Israel on Sunday rejected all responsibility for an attack on a girls' primary school in Iran's Hormozgan Province that claimed more than 100 lives, according to Iranian reports.

"No Israeli or American attacks there are known to us at this point in time," Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani said.

Shoshani added, "And what I know is that we were in a position - and this will be confirmed by the Americans and the Iranians - to eliminate 40 people who had hidden from us in an extremely precise way, more than 1,000 miles [1,609 kilometres] away."

He was referring to the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The denial came after the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it was "deeply concerned" about the bombings in Iran.

"There are reports of attacks on schools in Iran, including a girls' school in Minab," the German office of the children's aid organization stated in Cologne on Sunday.

"Attacks on civilians and civilian objects, including schools, constitute a violation of international law," it said.

At least 108 girls were killed in a rocket attack in the south of the country, according to Iranian sources. A girls' primary school in Hormozgan was hit, state-run news agency IRNA reported. Dozens more female pupils were said to have been injured.

These claims cannot be independently verified.

UNICEF called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. The children's aid organization also appealed to all parties involved in the conflict to exercise the utmost restraint and to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights. This includes, in particular, the protection of the civilian population and the services on which children rely for survival.

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