The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned a deadly missile strike that destroyed a girls’ primary school in Iran’s southern city of Minab, calling the attack a serious breach of international law amid escalating regional violence.
UNESCO said in a statement on social media that the bombing Saturday killed more than 160 people, most of them students, and wounded nearly 100 others.
The agency warned that schools are protected spaces under humanitarian law, stressing that “attacks against educational institutions endanger students and teachers and undermine the right to education.”
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said on the US social media company X’s platform that she was “heartbroken and appalled” by the strike, adding “the killing of civilians, especially children, is unconscionable, and I condemn it unequivocally.”
seyed mohammad kazemi
