Civilian Toll Crosses 1,000 As US-Israel Pound Iranian Cities

2026-03-06 05:02:24

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Tehran- More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in the first five days of US-Israeli bombings of Iran, including 181 children under the age of ten, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

The rights group said it had aggregated reports of 1,097 civilian deaths and over 5,000 injuries so far in the war that began in the early hours of Saturday morning with a massive wave of airstrikes across the country that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei and other Iranian military and political leaders.

The news comes as Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth announced airstrikes would intensify across Iran, telling reporters on Wednesday that U.S. forces were delivering“death and destruction from the sky all day long”.

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“Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly,” Hegseth said.“Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight. And it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they are down, which is exactly how it should be.”

The Israel Defence Forces, meanwhile, said it had begun“broad-scale strikes targeting Iranian terror regime targets in Tehran” in a statement Wednesday morning.
Videos from Tehran showed large explosions across the capital on Thursday. Iran's state television is broadcasting live images of mass rallies from across the country expressing defiance of the US-Israeli aggression on the country.

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