UNICEF

On 6 March, UNICEF confirmed that at least 181 children had been killed in Iran during the conflict's first seven days. It said 168 of them died at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' primary school in Minab.

For UNICEF, the count put child-casualty documentation at the centre of its emergency response. The Minab deaths gave its reporting a specific site, age group and timeframe, rather than leaving the civilian toll as a general estimate. Independent reporting on 7 March identified a US weapon at the school, although that event did not establish responsibility for every child death recorded by UNICEF.

On 23 March, UNICEF deputy executive director Ted Chaiban said that one classroom of children was being killed or wounded each day in Lebanon. The statement came as Lebanon's reported death toll reached 1,029, including 118 children, after operations expanded on 2 March.

For UNICEF, the daily comparison translated cumulative casualty data into the scale of harm facing children. It also placed child protection alongside a wider displacement emergency, with more than one million people reported displaced in the same event. The organisation's role was to document the child toll while humanitarian agencies responded to its consequences.