They were not militants. They were not soldiers. They were children.
Parnia Abbasi had just ten days left before her 24th birthday. A poet, an English teacher, a student with ambitions bigger than the borders she was born within. Her little brother Parham, full of life, hope, and the love of an ordinary childhood, now lies beneath rubble—his name added to the ever-growing list of innocent lives lost in a war they never chose.
And Amir-Ali Amini, a teenage taekwondo prodigy who might have stood on Olympic podiums someday, has become a symbol of what is being lost—youth, dreams, and peace—every time Israel launches another missile under the guise of “self-defense.”
But this is not Gaza. This is Iran. This is Syria. This is Lebanon. The war has crossed borders, and the bombs have followed.
This isn’t defense. This is a deliberate campaign of regional destabilization—and it’s playing out with shocking impunity.
Israel’s strikes are growing in frequency and boldness. Its justifications, thinner than ever. And still, Western leaders remain silent. Media coverage stays sanitized. Civilian deaths—especially those outside of Palestine—are treated as acceptable collateral in a conflict framed only through Israeli terms.
But we must say: No more.
International silence is no longer neutrality. It is complicity. And the longer it continues, the more innocent blood will be spilled—and the more likely this conflict will evolve into a full-scale regional war with unimaginable consequences.
The death of these children is not just a tragedy. It is a warning.
The world must act now—before more dreams are buried in rubble, before more medals are left unclaimed, before more birthdays are never celebrated.
