Iran war timeline: civilians bear brunt of US and Israel’s weeks-long campaign

Since US-Israeli bombs started falling on Iran, about 1,500 people have been killed, homes destroyed and ancient sites damaged Middle East crisis live – latest updates It is approaching a month since the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, arguing they were acting to remove the country’s nuclear threat, destroy its ballistic missile capability and free the Iranian people of a tyrannical theocratic regime. Yet it is Iranian civilians who are increasingly bearing the brunt of Israel and US’s campaign. Here’s what we know about the impact war is having on the Iranian public. At least 175 people were killed, the majority of them children, by a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school on the first day of Israeli-US bombing. US investigators reportedly believe American forces are responsible. On the same day, 20 people, including teenage girls playing volleyball, were killed after an attack that hit a sports hall in Lamerd, on Iran’s south coast, Iranian authorities said. Gandhi hospital, in Tehran, suffered extensive damage in strikes the day after, in what the World Health Organization chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described as an “extremely worryingâ€