UN Expresses Concern Over US-Israel Strike on Iranian Girls' School That Killed 165

A United Nations panel of experts on the rights of the child said they were ‘deeply concerned’ about the deaths of children in the incident Iran describes as a US-Israel strike on a girls’ school in Minab, in southern Iran, on Saturday, 28 February, which killed at least 165 people. ‘The Committee is concerned by reports of attacks against civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, that have injured and traumatised children, and claimed many young lives,’ the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a statement. The committee, a body of 18 independent experts monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, said children must be protected from war and from violence, and must be able to access education. Iran’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, has raised the issue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in a letter dated 1 March, calling the attack unjustified and criminal. (Aljazeera/P-3)

The Chinese government strongly condemned the air strikes carried out by the United States and Israel, which targeted civilian facilities in Iran and killed civilians. Iran, the third-largest producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), accounts for about 4.5% of global oil supply. Rosatom said it had evacuated nearly 100 people. The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait issued an emergency alert regarding threats from missiles and drones. The IRGC said it had damaged Ali Al Salem Air Base. U.S. citizens were told to ‘shelter in place’. A Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests only 25% of Americans support a strike on Iran. The prospect of higher fuel prices and casualties among troops poses a risk to Trump’s position.