WANA (Mar 28) – In the pediatric intensive care unit of Mofid Children’s Hospital, life hangs quietly between machines; Six-year-old Amirhossein lies in his hospital bed, small and still, and has been here for ten days.

 

Ten days since the night his home was reduced to rubble.

 

Ten days since his childhood was interrupted by war.

 

Amirhossein was injured on March 18 when airstrikes hit a residential building in Tehran. He was inside with his family. According to our data they were no military targets, so without a warning, an explosion tore through an ordinary home.

An Iranian child, Amir Hossein, was injured in a strike, is treated in Mofid Children’s Hospital, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)

Dr. Maryam Mirjafari, a pediatrician in the ICU, tells us about this special patient: “A 6-year-old child named Amirhossein… arrived at Mofid Hospital with injuries in the early morning… due to the explosion of a residential building,” she says.

 

The blast destroyed the house completely. Amirhossein survived, but his 10-year-old sister did not.

 

Dr. Mirjafari says: “His parents also sustained serious injuries… but they are on the path to recovery,” the doctor explains

 

For now, Amirhossein remains alone in the ICU…

 

While official figures remain contested, reports indicate that civilian casualties are rising as the conflict continues into its fourth week.

 

Children represent a significant portion of the most vulnerable.

 

Medical staff say many of the dead never reach hospitals, particularly in cases of direct strikes on residential buildings.

 

“Most of the child casualties were those who died at the scene,” Dr. Hashemi says. “The patients who arrived were in very critical condition.”

 

For those who survive, recovery is often long and uncertain.

An Iranian child, Amir Hossein, was injured in a strike, is treated in Mofid Children’s Hospital, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)

Doctors at Mofid Hospital speak with heavy hearts: “These were completely ordinary people,” Dr. Mirjafari explains. “The mother had no military job, nor did the father. They were living a normal life in a completely residential area.”

 

War is often described in terms of strategy and targets but here, the patients are children pulled from their homes, their streets, their routines.

 

“We have seen many children of various ages, even infants under six months old,” she says. “Some of them never even made it to the ICU… the children had already died upon arrival.”

 

There are no precise numbers for the youngest victims but according to these doctors that’s ecause many never make it far enough to be counted.

 

The injuries are severe. The conditions critical.

 

And sometimes, despite everything, the outcome does not change.

 

“We lost one of our patients last week,” Dr Hashemi says quietly.

 

Most of the children who die never even reach this room , she means the ICU room

 

“Most of the child casualties were those who died at the scene,” she adds. “Given the nature of the war, children are unfortunately dying at the scene.”

 

The latest escalation between Iran, the United States, and Israel began nearly a month ago, following a series of rising regional tensions, covert operations, and retaliatory strikes that finally erupted into open confrontation in early March.

A view from inside a residential building damaged by a strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)

Since then, both sides have continued exchanging attacks, each claiming precision targeting of strategic and military sites.

 

But on the ground, the consequences have extended far beyond those targets,Residential areas have been hit. Civilian infrastructure damaged. And hospitals like Mofid are receiving the aftermath.

 

For the doctors who treat these children, the conclusion is unavoidable.

 

“A war that kills children and women is a war crime,” Dr. Hashemi says. “When such crimes go unaddressed… what happened elsewhere is now happening here.”

Medical staff work at Mofid Children’s Hospital, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)

Inside Mofid Children’s Hospital, those words do not feel political.

 

They feel clinical. Observed. Lived.

 

Because every bed in this ward tells the same story:

 

This war is not confined to battlefields.

 

It reaches into homes.

 

Into families.

 

Into the lives of children who had no part in it.

 

And it stays.

 

Long after the explosions stop…