People In Iran Held A Mass Funeral For 165 Children And Staff Killed In A School By The US And Israel
"These are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school.”
People in Iran have held a mass funeral for the more than 165 girls and staff killed in an attack by the US and Israel on a girls’ school in Iran.
As part of their joint attack on Iran on Saturday, Feb. 29, Israel and the US bombed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the town of Minab, killing more than 165 people, mostly children.
An official said the school had been "targeted by three missile attacks", according to the BBC.
Two Red Crescent medics who arrived at the scene told Middle East Eye that the school was hit by a double-tap strike.
After the first strike hit the school, a teacher and the school principal moved students into the prayer hall for shelter and called parents to come collect their children, but before parents could arrive, a second missile struck the prayer hall.
"We saw bodies without heads, without hands, without legs," one medic said.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called the attack a "barbaric act", while the country’s ambassador to the UN called the attack a war crime.
On Tuesday, March 3, thousands of mourners gathered in a public square in Minab in a mass funeral broadcast on Iran state TV, carrying coffins draped with Iranian flags and photos of victims, shouting “no surrender.”
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a photo on X saying, "these are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school.”
Neither the US nor Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US "would not deliberately target a school."
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military was investigating, and a person familiar with the investigation told CBS News that US investigators believe the US may have been responsible, because it was operating in the area that morning.
More On US-Israel War On Iran
Flavie Chen
Sofia Hou
Cherry Mohamed
