Rescue staff and residents search by way of the rubble within the aftermath of a strike on a ladies’ elementary college in Minab, Iran.
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China stated on Friday (March 13, 2026) it can donate $200,000 to the dad and mom of scholars killed in what it referred to as an “indiscriminate” missile strike on a faculty in Iran early within the Center East battle.
Tehran has accused the USA and Israel of conducting the lethal missile assault on the college in Iran’s south on the primary day of the battle.
Iranian media reviews stated funerals had been held for at the very least 165 folks, together with kids, killed within the strike. The toll has not been verified independently. A U.S. army investigation into the strike is underneath manner.
Beijing’s Overseas Ministry stated the Chinese language Purple Cross Society will donate $200,000 in emergency humanitarian help to the Iranian Purple Crescent Society, particularly for “condolences and compensations” to the dad and mom of lifeless college students.
Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun referred to as the strike a “extreme violation” of worldwide humanitarian regulation.
“Assaults on colleges and youngsters represent a extra extreme violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation and breach the underside line of human conscience and morality,” Mr. Guo advised reporters at a daily information briefing.
“China stands able to proceed offering essential help to Iran in a humanitarian spirit to help the Iranian folks by way of this tough time,” he stated.
The New York Occasions reported on Wednesday (March 11, 2026) that the U.S. army investigation has decided {that a} U.S. Tomahawk missile had struck the college due to a concentrating on mistake. Israel has denied any involvement in or information of the strike.
AFP has been unable to entry the placement to independently confirm the circumstances of te strike or the toll. U.S. President Donald Trump initially instructed that Iran itself could have been accountable, though Iran doesn’t have Tomahawk missiles.
He stated later he may “stay with” regardless of the investigation reveals however, when requested in regards to the Occasions report on Wednesday (March 11, 2025), he advised reporters: “I do not learn about it.”
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