TEHRAN – The education ministry has launched a campaign, titled Minab Angels, to build two schools in the memory of the students martyred on February 28 in a U.S. missile attack to Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

At least 168 girls, most of them aged between 7 and 12, were killed and dozens more injured during the attack.

The campaign provides a great opportunity for benefactors to denounce the illegal attacks and make contributions to build the schools, Hamidreza Khanmohammadi, the director of the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipping Schools, said, IRIB reported. 

In this regard, Education Minister Alireza Kazemi has said the school should be built again with a special design in order to be a symbol of science and altruism. It should be turned into a memorial to commemorate the martyred students, IRNA reported.

Since the outbreak of the war, over 640 schools have been destroyed in 17 provinces of the country, out of which 250 need fundamental repairs, and 15 need to be rebuilt.

A total of 241 students and teachers have been martyred and 183 students and teachers have been injured. 

Kazami has written separate letters to Salim bin Mohammed Al-Malik, the director general of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Khaled El-Enany; the director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and Catherine Russell, the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), urging them to condemn the U.S..-Israeli attacks to educational and cultural organizations in the country.