Read this if you are a parent, come back to it because it hurts too much and you can’t take reading it all in at once. Read it if you are not a parent so you might understand even just a sliver of what it means to be a parent when children are bombed.

If we can’t wage war without ensuring this doesn’t happen (and we cannot), we simply must not wage war.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/28/parents-victims-iran-minab-shajareh-tayyebeh-school-bombing-describe-day

‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day

Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families describe the events of 28 February

The Guardian