The strike occurred because the U.S. military relied on outdated information that was not properly verified, indicating a breakdown in the established checks and balances system.

“The military took old information and used it to make the targets on the day of the strike and they did not update the data. They did not verify it and realize what we've all come to know now that this became a school a decade or more ago.”

The strike on the school likely occurred because outdated intelligence incorrectly identified a civilian school as a legitimate military target.

“It's suggested that this might be a massive intelligence failure and somebody identified a school as being a legitimate military target because we could see from other videos that we also verified that buildings inside in the base had been hit.”