Mohaddeseh Falahat called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to not “let this tragedy be forgotten.“
The mother of two children killed in a missile strike on a school at the start of the Iran war has blamed the U.S. and Israel for their deaths and told the United Nations "not to let this tragedy be forgotten.
" The woman, named as Mohaddeseh Falahat, told a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday"no mother is prepared to hear the words: ‘your child is not coming back.’" Her comments via videolink follow Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi telling the U.N. that the strike on the school in Minab on February 28, which killed over 175 students and teachers, was a"calculated" U.S. assault. The U.S Defence Department is still carrying out an investigation into the incident, which President Trump had initially accused Iran of carrying out, but multiple outlets have reported officials disclosing preliminary results attributing the blame to the U.S Military. an internal U.S. military investigation earlier this month determined that U.S. forces were responsibleThe U.S. had been targeting an Iranian naval base and buildings that lay adjacent to the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. The girls school building had previously been part of the military compound, and the U.S. military had relied on outdated data in setting coordinates for the strikes, officials said.On Friday, Falahat, whose two children Mahdieh and Amin were killed at the school, spoke of her grief and called for justice. "I call upon the Human Rights Council…and upon all those who have a duty and ability to defend the lives of children, not to let this tragedy be forgotten. "The truth must be brought to light and Israel and the United States who are the cause of this suffering must be held accountable." Falahat said on Friday that her children's room"is silent, much more silent than any home should ever be" as she recalled the last time she saw them alive. "As they walked out the door, they simply said 'mom, come pick us up after school,'" she said."That simple sentence now repeats in my mind a thousand times, and each time my heart burns with pain."the bombing had evoked"visceral horror," insisting upon the need for"justice for the terrible harm done" and for Washington to finish its investigation quickly and publish the results., Jia Guide, said it was"a breach of the bottom line of human morality, the most egregious violation of human rights." It comes amid growing alarm at the humanitarian cost of the war. The International Organization for Migration said on Friday that attacks on Iran have damaged 82,000 civilian buildings, including hospitals, residential units and the homes of 180,000 people, across 20 of Iran’s 32 provinces."Ladies and gentlemen, I am a mother, a mother who even now when passing by my kids' room feels the urge to open the door and see them sleeping in their beds, as always, or sitting there drawing."That morning was like any other. It was routine for me to straighten their shoes by the door, comb their hair, and put their backpacks on their shoulders. There was no sign that this would be the last time. "As they walked out the door, they simply said 'mom, come pick us up after school.' That simple sentence now repeats in my mind a thousand times, and each time my heart burns with pain. "No 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 'Your child is not coming back,' "These days, whenever I see any child for a moment, I think maybe, maybe if it were my kids, Mahdieh and Amin, he or she would be running just like that. Laughing just like that. Living just like that. "The clothes they bought with such joy for the new year, Nowruz, are still there, their notebooks left unfinished. And their dreams, dreams—they never had the chance to continue writing. "I'm not just a grieving mother. No. I am the voice of all the mothers who sent their children to school believing they would be safe. "A school was meant to be a place for learning, laughing, and building the future. A safe place for the children who were supposed to build a future in this world. Not a place where their future is extinguished in an instant."
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