TEHRAN – Iran’s Forensic Medicine Organization has identified 3,753 people killed in the joint US-Israeli war, the head of the body announced, amid efforts to assess the human toll of the aggression launched on February 28.

Abbas Masjedi said the victims were identified using “scientific and specialized methods.” Of the total number, 2,875 were men and 496 were women. He added that foreign nationals were also among the dead, including citizens of Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, China, Iraq, and Lebanon.

The announcement comes as Iranian authorities release further details about the scale of civilian casualties resulting from the unprovoked American-Israeli military campaign.

Majid Miadfar, head of Iran’s Emergency Organization, also said the death toll includes 260 women and 221 individuals under the age of 18. Among them were 18 children under the age of five.

Miadfar described the death of 168 people, most of them schoolgirls, from Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern city of Minab as one of the most harrowing chapters of the war. A US missile hit the school in the first day of the aggression on February 28. 

Miadfar also detailed extensive damage to Iran’s healthcare infrastructure. A total of 400 medical facilities, 57 emergency bases, and 47 ambulances have been struck and damaged during the US–Israeli attacks. Two air ambulances and one sea ambulance also suffered significant damage.

Among health workers, 26 have been martyred and 118 injured. Of those wounded, 78 were on duty treating injured civilians at the time of the strikes.

The United States and Israel began their military campaign despite indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington over Iran’s nuclear program. The aggression has included a wave of strikes targeting both military sites and civilian infrastructure across the country, resulting in heavy casualties and widespread destruction. 

In response, Iran’s Armed Forces have carried out multiple waves of retaliatory missile and drone operations targeting US positions in the Persian Gulf region and Israeli sites in the in cities such as Haifa and Tel Aviv, vowing that acts of aggression against the Iranian nation will not go unanswered. Iran and the US agreed to a two-week ceasefire last week.