Forty schoolgirls tragically lost their lives in an Israeli attack on a girls’ elementary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran, according to Iranian media reports. Earlier, the deputy security chief of Iran’s Hormozgan province had reported five dead schoolgirls. “In today’s attacks by the Zionist regime on the city of Minab, a girls’ elementary school was targeted and so far 5 deaths have been confirmed,” the official had stated.