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President Donald Trump dismissed a question on whether he’d hold members of his administration accountable for a strike on an Iranian elementary school in the early days of the war, continuing to deny that the U.S. was involved in the massacre despite evidence suggesting otherwise.

A reporter asked Trump on Wednesday whether he would “hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children on the first day of the war.”

Trump answered with a definitive “no” before saying the strike was still “under investigation.” He then said the query from the reporter was “a strange question to be asked.”

“You’re talking about a long time ago,” Trump said, before adding that “nobody did that on purpose.”

“Mistakes are made, and war is nasty,” Trump concluded.

Throughout the US-Israeli War, Iranians Refused to Be Owned

NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children?TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-17T16:57:20.374Z

NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone........

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