Poetess Buried With Her Dreams, Child Crushed In Sleep: Faces Of Civilian Lives Lost In Israel’s Bombing Of Tehran | World News

Yeni Delhi: their lives had nothing to do with war. Nevertheless, they were taken in seconds. Israeli air strikes, which are said to aim to dismantle military and nuclear facilities, killed hundreds of people last week. Far from military maps and speech points, real life is reduced to rubble. There are students, artists, teachers and parents among the victims in homes, cafes, dormitories and streets.

These are some of their stories.

Niloufar Ghahyvand was sipping coffee with his friend the night before his death. 32 -year -old Pilates instructor from Ozgol Street in North Tehran dreamed of starting his own fitness channel one day. He had no chance.

Probably a missile targeting a senior military official living nearby hit his building in the early hours. He died with the Niloufar family – ordinary civilians without politics or war.

“It was full of dreams. The birthday was only weeks, Al Al Jazeera said one of her friends.

Parsa Mansour, a star rising in package tennis, was asleep when the window exploded. The 27 -year -old athlete lived with his family in Shahrar, a intense settlement in Tehran. His father survived, but Parsa didn’t.

Only trained without sponsor or coach. He took it to the top without support. That was that. Now, there is a silence that he used to laugh.

23 -year -old Parnia Abbasi was a poet at the Iranian National Bank. He had just moved to a new apartment with his family. It was to watch a degree of graduate. He liked to write about hope in dark times. One of his poems writes: “I am burning, breathing, I became a silent star, turning into smoke in the sky…”

His friend says that the smoke is the only thing that remains after balancing the apartment block on Sattarkhan Street. He was killed with his family and his 14 -year -old brother.

35 -year -old Ehsan Bayrami, a free photographer covering sports activities, was killed while walking home from a business meeting. A explosion in the Tajrish area is just a few meters from where it passed minutes ago.

That morning he was warned by his friend that he would remain awake by his friend, “they only bombed at night”.

Lunch.

30 -year -old Amin Ahmad was Taekwondo athlete. His father, a retired teacher, had saved their homes to build their homes in the east of Tehran for decades. When the missile hit, Amin saw his father was thrown out of the house, his face and ears were badly burned.

He watched his death. The rest of the family fled the window. But Ahmad could not.

Stories continue to come. 8 -year -old riding champion. A university professor in the living room. A graphic designer once for National Geographic.

Iranian Ministry of Health, 263 civilians in the ongoing attacks, at least 639 people died, he said. 1,300 people were injured.

Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones in retaliation in Israel, killed more than 24 and was injured more than 400. But for many Iranians, not in painful numbers, on empty chairs, unanswered phones and will never come birthdays.

Some victims have names. Some remain unidentified. They all had lives that never belonged to war.