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UN experts "deeply disturbed" by child deaths in escalating Middle East conflict

AL-Monitor
Mar 4, 2026
Graves are being prepared for the victims following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, March 2, 2026. Iranian Foreign Media Department/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
Graves are being prepared for the victims following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, March 2, 2026. Iranian Foreign Media Department/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS — Iranian Foreign Media Department

GENEVA, March 4 (Reuters) - A committee of UN experts said on Wednesday it was "deeply disturbed" by the deaths of children amid escalating violence across the Middle East, particularly the bombing of a girls school in Iran.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran was hit on Saturday, the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks against the country. It killed 160 children, UN experts stated.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, editing by Kirsti Knolle)