{"id":2303,"date":"2026-03-29T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:37:07","slug":"my-heart-burns-with-pain-grieving-mother-on-loss-of-kids-in-school-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/my-heart-burns-with-pain-grieving-mother-on-loss-of-kids-in-school-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My heart burns with pain,&#8217; grieving mother on loss of kids in school bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Iranian mother shared the last moments she had with her young children before them left for school never to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was addressing a UN Human Rights Council hearing into the deadly strike on February 28 in which the US and Israel forces forces bombed a primary school in Iran killing 170 people, mostly children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergency debate at the Geneva council was called by Iran to discuss the attack on the\u00a0Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls\u2019 School in Minab, a tragedy that took place on the first day of the nearly month-long war launched by the US and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohaddeseh Fallahat said that morning was like any other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was no sign that this would be the last time I would see my children alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement by Ms. Mohaddeseh Falahat, Mother of Martyred Students Mahdieh and Amin Ahmadzadeh, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Minab?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Minab<\/a> school<br>before the Urgent Debate of the UN Human Rights Council to Discuss the Protection of Children and Educational Institutions in International Armed Conflicts: \u201cThe Aerial\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hWpNYUwAXZ\">pic.twitter.com\/hWpNYUwAXZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Permanent Mission of the I.R. of IRAN to UNOG (@PMIRAN_GENEVA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMIRAN_GENEVA\/status\/2037472567288541216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fallahat remembers combing her two children\u2019s hair, then tying their shoes and lifting their backpacks onto their shoulders before kissing them goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs they walked out the door, they simply reminded me to pick them up after school. That simple sentence now repeats in my mind, and each time my heart burns with pain,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am a mother, a mother who even now when passing by my children&#8217;s room feels the urge to open the door and see them sleeping in their beds as always, or sitting there drawing. But the room is silent. Much more silent than any home should ever be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo mother ever thinks she will send her child off to school with a smile, only to be met with silence. No mother is prepared to hear the words: \u2018Your child is not coming back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the council via videolink that the attack was no \u201cmiscalculation\u201d, adding the victims were \u201cslaughtered in cold blood\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt a time when the American and Israeli aggressors, in their own assertion, possess the most advanced technologies and the highest precision military and data systems, no one can believe that the attack on the school was anything other than deliberate and intentional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian mother shared the last moments she had with her young children before them left for school never to return. She was addressing a UN Human Rights Council hearing into the deadly strike on February 28 in which the US and Israel forces forces bombed a primary school in Iran killing 170 people, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,205],"tags":[188,342,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-2303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones","8":"category-secondary-story","9":"tag-lebanon","10":"tag-school-massacre","11":"tag-shajareh-tayyebeh-girls-school"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}