Over the past year, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has significantly reduced the number of employees in the units that were supposed to investigate the circumstances of the attack on a girls' school in the Iranian city of Minab, informed sources say, Politico reported Tuesday.

According to them, the staff of the Pentagon department responsible for developing, analyzing, and implementing methods for protecting civilians in military operations, which previously had about 200 employees, has been reduced by 90 percent. And only one out of ten employees remains in a similar department of the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

These units were supposed to investigate the circumstances of the recent attack on a girls' school in Iran.

According to Politico, the aforesaid staff cuts made to these units have significantly reduced the US ability to protect civilians during the largest airstrike in decades.