Israel’s Rishon Lezion Mayor Raz Kinstelich told Reuters news agency that a kindergarten was completely destroyed in the Iranian attack. He said no children were present in the building at the time of the attack.
Kinstlich added, “If this attack had happened on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday – when the education system was still open and children were in kindergarten – I can’t imagine what would have happened.”
Children have also been killed in Israeli attacks
According to UNICEF data, more than 100 children were killed in the 2024 conflict in Lebanon. This figure has already been exceeded in Israel’s current attacks. Israeli forces have killed at least 118 children since the war began, according to data from Lebanon’s health ministry. This death toll has raised questions about how many deaths of children or other civilians the IDF is willing to accept when conducting airstrikes.
More than 200 children died in Iran
Iranian authorities have not released any information about the total number of people killed in the country for some time. On Monday, Iran’s foreign minister said “hundreds of Iranian civilians” had been killed since the conflict began, including more than 200 children. US-based human rights group HRANA said yesterday that at least 1,398 civilians (including 210 children) and 1,165 military personnel have been killed in the same time frame. HRANA reported that 657 other people were also killed, but it was not yet determined whether they were civilians or military personnel.