Iran holds funeral for scores of children murdered in US-Israeli aggression

Tehran – Funeral ceremonies were held on Tuesday for 168 victims of the US-Israeli airstrike that struck a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab in Hormozgan province on day one of the war.

168 schoolgirls and staff members of Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School were killed in a US–Israeli air strike on the first day of the war on Saturday. The strike also left 96 others wounded, many critically.

State television showed thousands of mourners filling a public square in Minab. Emotional scenes were on display with men and women trying to touch coffins of the young victims being carried in a large lorry.

The ceremony became both a tribute and a protest as anger over the deaths of young students spilt onto the streets.

From the stage, the mother of one of the slain students, identified as Atena, held up a printed collage of portraits that she called “a document of American crimes”.