Overview
- The Feb. 28 strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children, when a missile hit during a large initial wave of attacks.
- Investigators identified a cascade of targeting failures that let the site be treated as a military facility despite visible civilian use, citing outdated satellite imagery, intelligence that was not updated, compressed review timelines, and cuts to civilian‑harm teams.
- The Maven Smart System, built by Palantir, was central to processing and prioritizing targets but did not autonomously choose the school; officials say the platform failed to correct bad input data and users expected it to flag stale or inconsistent intelligence.
- Palantir and U.S. commands have added open‑source feeds, dozens of Maven upgrades, and tighter review steps while the Pentagon has not publicly accepted responsibility and has kept the full internal probe unreleased.
- The U.N. fact‑finding report saying there are reasonable grounds to treat the strike as a war crime raises the prospect of legal action and diplomatic fallout even as military and technical fixes seek to reduce future civilian harm.