More than 2,000 children wounded in US-Israeli attacks on Iran

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Head of Iran’s emergency department Jafar Miadfar says some 2,115 people under the age of 18 were wounded in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, Al Jazeera reports, citing Iran’s Mehr news agency.

He told the Mehr that 124 of those victims are under five years old and 24 are under the age of two.

Another 5,000 people wounded are women, with most attacks occurring in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan, Lorestan, Isfahan, Kermanshah and Ilam.

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