00:00I'm a mother, a mother who even now, when passing by my kids' room, feels the urge to open the
00:09door and see them sleeping in their beds, as always, or sitting there drawing.
00:16But the room is silent, much more silent than any home should ever be.
00:23That morning was like any other. It was routine for me to straighten their shoes by the door, comb their
00:31hair, and put their backpacks on their shoulders.
00:35There was no sign that this would be the last time.
00:40As they walked out the door, they simply said, Mum, come pick us up after school.
00:48That simple sentence now repeats in my mind a thousand times, and each time my heart burns with pain.
00:57No mother ever thinks she will send her child off to school with a smile, only to be met with
01:03silence.
01:05No mother is prepared to hear the words, Your child is not coming back.
01:12These days, whenever I see any child for a moment, I think, maybe, maybe, if it were my kids, Mahdiyeh
01:20and my Amin,
01:21he or she would be running just like that, laughing just like that, living just like that.
01:28The clothes I bought with such joy for the new year and nowras are still there.
01:33Their notebooks left unfinished, and their dreams, dreams they never had the chance to continue writing.
01:41I'm not just a grieving mother.
01:43No.
01:45I am the voice of all the mothers who sent their children to school, believing they would be safe.
01:52A school was meant to be a place for learning, laughing, and building the future.
01:57A safe place for the children who were supposed to build the future of this world,
02:02not a place where their future is extinguished in an instant.
02:08I call upon the Human Rights Council and its members, upon the responsible institutions,
02:15and upon all those who have the ability and the duty to defend the lives of children,
02:20not to let this tragedy be forgotten.
02:22The truth must be brought to light, and Israel and the United States,
02:26who are the cause of this suffering, must be held accountable,
02:30not for revenge, but for justice,
02:33so that the world knows that children's lives are not worthless,
02:36and that no parent should ever again have to endure such a weight.
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