Six months on, grief still raw for Iran school parents
For months, Masoumeh Zakeri has endlessly replayed the last night she spent with her nine-year-old daughter before she was killed in a strike on her school during the opening hours of the US-Israel war with Iran.
Six months after a devastating strike on a school in Iran, parents continue to grapple with the raw grief of losing their children. Masoumeh Zakeri, 44, lost her daughter Motahreh, a cheerful and energetic nine-year-old, when the school was hit during a US-Israel war. The last memory Zakeri has of her daughter is her mother tucking her into bed before she left for school.
Six months later, Motahreh's body was recovered, identified only by her jewelry. Parents like Yaghoub Yazdanpanah, who lost his six-year-old daughter Fatemeh, and Javad Shahrjou, whose seven-year-old son Alireza was also killed, struggle to comprehend why the school, once a potential military site, was targeted. The school remains a memorial, visited by families unable to return home. Grief has left many unable to think beyond the present, planning no future activities.
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