ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Erbil civil defense teams on Saturday found photographs, clothing, and other personal belongings of the victims of Iran’s deadly attack on a family home in the Kurdistan Region’s capital.
Photographs, clothing, and toys of Rawan, 7, and 11-month-old Zhina, the children of Erbil businessman Peshraw Dizayee, were found in the ruins. Dizayee and Zhina were killed in the attack and their home was reduced to rubble.
The teams found the same jacket little Zhina is seen wearing in images of her published on social media.
“For what sin she was killed,” a preacher read a verse from the Holy Quran at the site of the once luxurious family home.
Rawan and his mother Hana Jutyar were taken to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to receive treatment. They are both severely injured, but their lives are no longer in danger.
On Monday night, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ten ballistic missiles toward Erbil, under the pretext of targeting the “spy headquarters” of anti-Iran groups. Tehran described the Dizayee mansion as a Mossad base, an allegation rejected by Kurdish and Iraqi officials. Four people were killed.
Dizayee was born in Erbil province in 1966. In 1991, the year after Kurds staged an uprising against former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, as the situation in the Kurdistan Region grew dire, Dizayee was part of a great wave of emigration to Europe. He later returned after 2003.
“I have never heard that he had any issues with anyone or any party and no one had threatened him,” Salar Hawar Agha, a cousin of Dizayee, told Rudaw.