@cbsnews: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the claim that the U.S. military has targeted civilians in its operations is “a lie” and “a slander.” “The only people who target civilians are the terrorists that we hunt, and I will dignify this claim no further,” Hegseth said. He did not mention the airstrike on a girls’ school in Iran on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli offensive that killed more than 170 people, many of them children. A preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States was "likely" responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error. The Pentagon, Hegseth and Trump have not taken responsibility for the strike. #trump #iran #usa #military #usa