Overview
- UNICEF reported Tuesday that more than 340 children died over the past month across Iran, Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait.
- Iran accounts for at least 216 child deaths, including 168 killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab on the war’s first day.
- The agency counts over 1.2 million children displaced across the region and reports at least 20 schools and 10 hospitals damaged in Iran.
- Investigators in Iran’s Hormozgan province have identified 140 Minab victims, with at least 25 bodies awaiting DNA tests and recovered munitions fragments under review.
- UNICEF warns that blockades and rising oil prices could slow delivery of vaccines and nutrition supplies worldwide by up to six months.