As horrifying details emerge of deliberate strikes on schools and hospitals during the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, prominent parliamentarians, editors, and human rights advocates from Bahrain, Iraq, and Oman have issued blistering condemnations. They describe the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Minab — killing nearly 180 children — and attacks on medical facilities as war crimes, acts of genocide, and a moral disgrace that exposes the barbarity of the aggressors. The statements demand international investigations, accountability, and an end to the impunity that has long shielded Washington and Tel Aviv.
1. Former Bahraini MP: US Strike on School Is a War Crime Demanding International Justice
Jawad Fairooz, former Member of the Bahraini Parliament and President of the International Organization for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, has demanded immediate international accountability for the US-led airstrike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School in Minab on February 28.
Fairooz revealed that the strike martyred 180 people, the vast majority of them children. He insisted that the state responsible for this crime must face investigation and prosecution — whether before the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court — and must pay full compensation to the victims.
He stressed that the attack constitutes a flagrant violation of children’s rights under international treaties, which explicitly protect educational institutions and hospitals as safe zones in times of conflict. “Attacking these facilities is an assault on the right to life, the right to education, and the right to security,” Fairooz declared.
2. Iraqi MP: Massacre of Schoolchildren Is “Genocide” and a “Shame on Humanity”
Oday Shaalan Abuljon, Member of the Iraqi Parliament, has strongly condemned what he called “the crime of genocide against children” perpetrated by the “Zionist terrorist gang.”
Abuljon described the attack as a “cowardly act” that reveals the aggressors’ deep hatred and enmity toward humanity. He warned that the absolute silence of the international community is itself complicit, forcing nations to protect their own children and brothers.
He highlighted the martyrdom of 170 school students in Minab and the destruction of Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Tehran as clear proof of this hatred. “We say to the aggressors: You are war criminals,” Abuljon stated, adding that Shiites worldwide are targeted precisely because they stand for justice rather than worldly power.
3. Omani Editor-in-Chief: Bombing a School Exposes Profound Moral Crisis
Saleh bin Abdullah Al-Balushi, Editor-in-Chief of the Arabic-language newspaper Omani Affairs, has condemned the US-Zionist aggression as a brutal display of “the logic of power and domination” that completely disregards innocent life.
Al-Balushi declared that bombing a girls’ elementary school — a symbol of life, education, and hope — cannot be justified by any military pretext. Such an act, he said, reveals a profound crisis in moral standards and conflict management.
He drew parallels with previous US crimes against Iran, including the 1988 downing of an Iranian passenger plane that killed 290 civilians, 66 of them children. The editor warned that the repeated pattern of atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere raises serious doubts about the effectiveness of the current international system and the ability of global institutions to protect civilians or hold perpetrators accountable.
“Wars built on revenge and naked power do not lead to peace,” Al-Balushi concluded. “They only sow the seeds of new crises whose consequences may last for years.”