China offers $200,000 aid to Iran after school strike

The Red Cross Society of China will provide the Iranian Red Crescent Society with $200,000 in emergency humanitarian assistance, specifically to offer condolences and support to the parents of students killed after a girls' primary school in southern Iran was struck during the US-Israeli military operation against Iran.

"We express our deep condolences over the death of the students killed at the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Iran's Hormozgan province and extend our sincere sympathies to their families," Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Friday.

Speaking at a regular news briefing in Beijing, Guo said China stands ready to continue providing Iran with necessary assistance in the spirit of humanitarianism and to support the Iranian people in overcoming the current difficulties.

The spokesman said China condemns all indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets.

"Attacking schools and harming children constitutes an even more serious violation of international humanitarian law and gravely offends the moral conscience of humanity," he said.

According to media reports, an ongoing military investigation has preliminarily determined that a US Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian primary school that killed more than 160 people, most of them pupils, resulted from a target error.