Thousands of Iranians Mourn Schoolgirls Killed in US-Israel Attacks
Row after row of small, shallow graves — most holding children aged between seven and twelve — stretched across the burial site, their scale alone conveying the magnitude of a loss that has left an entire community shattered. Mourners dressed in black moved through the city's main square in a slow, anguished procession, clutching photographs of the dead and bearing coffins on their shoulders, many beating their chests in a traditional expression of sorrow.
The Iranian government confirmed that 168 students at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school perished in the attack, alongside at least 14 teachers and staff members and four parents who happened to be on school grounds when the strike occurred.
Buried Under the Rubble
The school, located in Hormozgan province, was struck on the morning of February 28 — the first day of what Iranian officials have described as an unprovoked US-Israeli military offensive that also claimed the life of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a number of senior government figures. According to officials in Tehran, US and Israeli fighter jets conducted five successive airstrikes on the school while morning classes were underway. A nearby medical clinic was struck separately in the hours that followed.
In the immediate aftermath, desperate parents converged on the smoldering ruins, searching for any word of their children amid the debris and dust. One father, speaking to local reporters at the scene, described arriving to find "a very difficult and heartbreaking scene" — with students and teachers "buried under the rubble." He directed his fury squarely at those he held responsible, condemning "criminal America" and Israel as "the child-killers."
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