US and Israel Have Killed or Injured Over 1,800 Children in Iran and Lebanon
The victims include a newborn baby.
by Joshua Carroll
20 March 2026
Over 300 children have been killed in illegal US and Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon since late February, while more than 1,500 have been injured.
The victims include a three-day-old baby and his two-year-old sister, who were killed in a US-Israeli strike on their home in the Iranian city of Arak, Iranian state media reported.
Footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society on Wednesday showed rescuers pulling a badly injured child from the rubble of a building in Tehran following a US-Israeli attack.
The US and Israel claim they do not target civilians, but observers refute this. Jeffrey Sachs, a former special adviser to the UN secretary general, told journalist Piers Morgan earlier this month that the war on Iran is “a kind of mass murder of civilians” that involves “carpet bombing” Tehran.
The latest figures for child casualties were compiled by Unicef on Thursday, though the UN agency did not specify the perpetrators of the attacks. Donald Trump has sought to evade US responsibility for a massacre of some 170 schoolgirls in Minab on 28 February, despite mounting evidence that the US carried out the killings.
Iran has also killed and injured children with its retaliatory attacks on Israel, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Across countries affected by the war, the figures include “202 children reportedly killed in Iran, 107 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and one in Kuwait as well as over 1,190 children injured in Iran, 331 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and four in Bahrain,” Unicef said.
“These numbers are likely to rise as the violence intensifies,” the agency added. “Homes, schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure have reportedly been damaged or destroyed in several locations, disrupting services that children rely on for survival and wellbeing.”
Joshua Carroll is a writer and journalist.