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Thousands gather to mourn children killed in strike on Iranian's girls' school

Thousands of mourners gathered in the southern Iranian city of Minab to mourn the children killed in a strike on a girls’ school over the weekend amid the U.S. and Israeli bombardment. Iranian ministry officials say more than 160 children were killed in the attack. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was packed for morning classes when it was hit on Saturday morning. On X, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, shared a photo of rows and rows of graves being prepared for the victims of the attack. They are “innocents murdered in cold blood,” he wrote. UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural and education agency, called the attack a “grave violation of the protection afforded to schools under international humanitarian law.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that U.S. forces would not deliberately target a school.  An Israeli government spokesman suggested — without evidence — that Iran targeted the school itself.