The government of China has announced a $200,000 donation to support families of students killed in a missile strike on a school in Iran during the early days of the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Beijing said the funds would be delivered through the Red Cross Society of China to the Iranian Red Crescent Society as emergency humanitarian assistance for the parents of the victims.

Iran has accused the United States and Israel of carrying out the missile strike on a school in southern Iran on the first day of the war.

Iranian media reported that funerals were held for at least 165 people, including several children, who were killed in the attack, although the figure has not been independently verified.

A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, Guo Jiakun, described the strike as a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

“Attacks on schools and children constitute a more severe violation of international humanitarian law and breach the bottom line of human conscience and morality,” he said during a press briefing.

According to reports by The New York Times, a preliminary investigation by the US military found that a Tomahawk missile may have struck the school due to a targeting error.

Israel has denied any involvement in the attack.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, President of the United States, initially suggested Iran could have been responsible for the incident, although Iran does not possess Tomahawk missiles.

He later said he could “live with” whatever the investigation eventually reveals regarding the strike.