Iran health ministry says 2 pregnant women, 13 children killed in Israel’s air attacks so far

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Hossein Kermanpour, the head of the public relations at Iran’s Health Ministry has said at least 13 children have been killed since Israel started attacking Iran on June 13, with the youngest being “just two months old”.

He added that 44 women have also been killed in the Israeli attacks, including two who were pregnant.

Kermanpour’s update did not provide an overall death toll but in another post on Saturday, he had said that more than 400 people had been killed since the start of the conflict, with at least 3,056 others wounded.

“The majority of casualties and the injured have been civilians,” he had said.

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