After the school bombing, thousands of people gathered in Minab for a mass funeral and chanted slogans against the United States and Israel.

Iran held a mass funeral for the 165 female students and staff killed on Saturday in what it said was a US-Israeli attack on an Iranian girls’ school. southern city minab.

The Israeli military claims it is not aware of any Israeli or U.S. attacks in the region. Israel has consistently denied launching numerous deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians during its genocidal war in Gaza, but later retracted its claims after irrefutable evidence emerged, calling such attacks “accidental.”

Iranian state television showed thousands of people filling a public square in Minab on Tuesday. The men waved Islamic Republic flags and most kept their distance from the women, who were draped in black burqas.

On stage, a woman who identified herself as “Atna’s” mother held up a printed image of the portrait, which she called “a document of America’s crimes.” She added, “They died in God’s way.”

The crowd erupted into chants of “Death to America,” “Death to Israel” and “No Surrender.”

The attack, which took place on Saturday, came after the United States and Israel announced a joint strike against Iran, the deadliest targeting of civilians so far in the war against Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday accused the United States and Israel of killing the schoolgirl.

“These graves are being dug for the more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of an elementary school. Their bodies were torn to pieces,” Araghchi wrote on the X, alongside a picture of the newly dug graves.

“This is what Trump’s promised ‘rescue’ looks like in reality. From Gaza to Minab, innocent people are murdered in cold blood.”

Tehran authorities A call for action and solidarity from the international community U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in the country have affected several hospitals and schools as Iran continues to launch missiles and drones in the region.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that the two countries “continue to attack residential areas indiscriminately, sparing neither hospitals, schools, Red Crescent facilities nor cultural monuments.”

US denies knowledge of attack

The incident was condemned by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural and educational agency, and Nobel Peace Prize-winning education activist Malala Yousafzai.

Deliberate attacks on educational institutions, hospitals or any other civilian buildings constitute war crimes under international humanitarian law.

“The War Department will investigate whether this was an attack on our part and I will refer your questions to them,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday when asked about the incident.

“The United States does not intentionally target a school,” he claimed.

Over the weekend, U.S. Central Command told media it was “investigating” reports of “civilian harm as a result of ongoing military operations.”

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday that she was aware of reports from Iran that the attack had killed people, noting that U.S. officials have said they are investigating the reports.