Drawings of Minab children killed in US attack exhibited outside UN office in Geneva
An exhibition outside the United Nations office in Geneva is showcasing the drawings, schoolbags, and a number of personal belongings of the innocent Iranian children the United States killed in an airstrike on their school in the southern city of Minab during the opening salvo of the war of aggression against Iran.
The exhibition was launched on Saturday at the Place des Nations square in front of the UN headquarters in the Swiss city and will run through Tuesday.
Organized by two Iranian civil activists residing in Switzerland, the event provides a tangible account of the impact of the illegal war the United States and Israel launched on civilians in Iran.
The organizers said the exhibition was aimed at drawing public attention to the suffering of Iranian children and protesting the silence and inaction of the UN and the international community on the killing of civilians during the terrorist US-Israeli aggression.
They also called for accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying civilians must be protected and international humanitarian law should not be trampled for political considerations or manipulated by double standards.
The United States and Israel launched their illegal, unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28. They assassinated Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders.
Forty days later, on April 8, Iran’s enemies were forced to accept a ceasefire amid its resistance, successful, decisive retaliatory operations, and firm control over the Strait of Hormuz.
On the first day of the aggression, US Tomahawk missiles struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Hormozgan Province. The United States killed 168 people, most of them children and several teachers.
The United States also killed 22 people in a second deadly strike on the same day on a sports center and residential area in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd, Fars Province.
In both strikes, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission “found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.”
In July, the United States again conducted waves of deadly airstrikes on Iran and imposed a naval blockade in violation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic, signed on June 17, to end the war.
Iran’s response was resolute. The Iranian Armed Forces launched decisively devastating strikes against strategic American targets across West Asia and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all traffic.
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