In a press briefing Monday morning, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon delivered a scathing rebuke to a United Nations official who shared a “fake news photo” which she claimed was a from an Iranian school hit by an airstrike on Saturday.
BACK STORY: Quoting Iranian media, ABC News reported on Sunday:
Dozens of students at an Iranian all-girls elementary school were among those killed during the U.S. and Israeli military strikes throughout the country Saturday morning, officials in Iran claimed.
The country’s leaders and state TV said 165 people who were at the Shajare Tayyiba Elementary School were dead as of Sunday after the school in Minab was attacked.
Dozens of students at an Iranian all-girls elementary school were among those killed during the U.S. and Israeli military strikes throughout the country Saturday morning, officials in Iran claimed. https://t.co/jfVcOt8JZP
— ABC News (@ABC) March 1, 2026
Iranians were blaming the United States and Israel for the strike on the school. However, it was later reported that the strike on the school was from a missile from the Iranian military themselves, which misfired and came back down on the school.
A failed missile launch in Iran caused the projectile to fall on a school. Images captured the moment it failed, fell back to ground, and struck.
The Iranians – just like the Palestinians in Gaza at the beginning of the war – immediately claimed it was a missile fired by the… pic.twitter.com/qs8bAfaEWU
— Chaya’s Clan (@ChayasClan) February 28, 2026
On Monday, Danon lambasted Vanessa Frazier, who serves as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, for promoting an image of dozens of bodies laid out in black body bags, and claimed it was dead bodies from the school.
Danon first called out Frazier’s fake news photo on Sunday, by sharing the original photo from January. He wrote:
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, @_VanessaFrazier, tweeted condemning “attacks on Iranian schools leaving a large number of casualties, mostly children.”
Unsurprisingly, she did not address the children killed in Israel by Iranian missiles. Worse, she included a gruesome photo of bodies. But what she did not write was that this photo was taken about two months ago and the dead in the photo are protesters murdered by the murderous regime in Iran.
Ms. Vanessa Frazier, if you wish to truly fulfil your mandate, condemn the Iranian attack that resulted in the murder of Israeli children today!
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, @_VanessaFrazier, tweeted condemning “attacks on Iranian schools leaving a large number of casualties,mostly children.”
Unsurprisingly, she did not address the children killed in Israel by… https://t.co/556cZqU1Yy pic.twitter.com/BktSF4C4an
— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) March 2, 2026
Frazier has deleted her original post, but one X user shared a screenshot, as proof.
leaving it here as proof: pic.twitter.com/XoFMSuX2Ir
— Rough (@cjrough3317) March 2, 2026
Frazier defiantly tried to defend herself, and sneered, “You don’t need to deflect from the horrors of this attack by criticising a photo! The facts remain that many children ended in body bags after their school was bombed.I didn’t even attribute the attack to any state. But by your post I guess we understand now who was the perpetrator.”
Then, in a brazen declaration, she continued to defend her fake news post by insisting that Danon write the TRUTH about HER.
“May I remind you that I have advocated numerous times for Israeli children victims! I penned the 1st UNSC resolution which led to the negotiated freedom of the 1st hostages, namely Israeli children. If you are going to write about me, do so truthfully,” she retorted.
&May I remind you that I have advocated numerous times for Israeli children victims! I penned the 1st UNSC resolution which led to the negotiated freedom of the 1st hostages, namely Israeli children. If you are going to write about me, do so truthfully
— Vanessa Frazier 🧡 (@_VanessaFrazier) March 2, 2026
Still defiant, Frazier added, “If they are attacking the photo and not the message, then it is clear that my message was strong. Plus the photo was still representative of the result of the attack- bodies in bags-Whether it was from that attack or not.”
if they are attacking the photo and not the message, then it is clear that my message was strong. Plus the photo was still representative of the result of the attack- bodies in bags-Whether it was from that attack or not
— Vanessa Frazier 🧡 (@_VanessaFrazier) March 2, 2026
Below is Danon’s press briefing, as he slammed Frazier for claiming the photo was children from the school, when in fact, it was a photo of Iranian protesters slaughtered by the radical Islamic regime.
In another post, Frazier wrote, “I am deeply alarmed by reports of attacks on Iranian schools leaving a large number of casualties, mostly children. The UNSC has designated attacks on schools&hospitals as a grave violation against children. Schools must remain safe places for learning.”
She does not acknowledge that the missile was reportedly fired by Iran, and not from Israel or the United States.
I am deeply alarmed by reports of attacks on Iranian schools leaving a large number of casualties,mostly children.The UNSC has designated attacks on schools&hospitals as a grave violation against children.Schools must remain safe places for learning https://t.co/KfT2s5xNCw
— Vanessa Frazier 🧡 (@_VanessaFrazier) March 2, 2026
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