{"id":44002,"date":"2026-03-13T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44002"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:45:58","slug":"china-donates-200000-to-families-of-iran-school-strike-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-donates-200000-to-families-of-iran-school-strike-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"China donates $200,000 to families of Iran school strike victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>China said on Friday it will donate $200,000 to the parents of students killed in what it called an &#8220;indiscriminate&#8221; missile strike on a school in Iran early in the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has accused the United States and Israel of conducting the deadly missile attack on the school in Iran&#8217;s south on the first day of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media reports said funerals were held for at least 165 people, including children, killed in the strike.\u00a0The toll has not been verified independently. A US military investigation into the strike is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry said the Chinese Red Cross Society will donate $200,000 in emergency humanitarian assistance to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, specifically for &#8220;condolences and compensations&#8221; to the parents of dead students.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun called the strike a &#8220;severe violation&#8221; of international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attacks on schools and children constitute a more severe violation of international humanitarian law and breach the bottom line of human conscience and morality,&#8221; Guo told reporters at a regular news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China stands ready to continue providing necessary assistance to Iran in a humanitarian spirit to support the Iranian people through this difficult time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the US military investigation has determined that a US Tomahawk missile had struck the school because of a targeting mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the strike.\u00a0AFP has been unable to access the location to independently verify the circumstances of te strike or the toll.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump initially suggested that Iran itself may have been responsible, even though Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles.<\/p>\n<p>He said later he could &#8220;live with&#8221; whatever the investigation reveals but, when asked about the Times report on Wednesday, he told reporters: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said on Friday it will donate $200,000 to the parents of students killed in what it called an &#8220;indiscriminate&#8221; missile strike on a school in Iran early in the Middle East war. Tehran has accused the United States and Israel of conducting the deadly missile attack on the school in Iran&#8217;s south on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44003,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44002\/revisions\/44003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}