The UN Human Rights Council said it will hold a meeting on Iran’s Gulf strikes , as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet G7 ministers in France to discuss the escalating crisis.
The UN body said it will hold an urgent debate on Wednesday on Iran's strikes as well as their impact on civilians, as the session was called following an official request submitted by Bahrain on behalf of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Jordan.
Human Rights Council spokesman Pascal Sim told a press conference on Tuesday that the countries will present a draft resolution to UN's top rights body.
The council will "discuss the recent military aggression launched by Iran against Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates... targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, which has resulted in the loss of innocent lives", according to the request.
It will be the 11th urgent debate of the Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006.
This comes as Iran requested an urgent debate at the UN Human Rights Council on the fatal air strike on a primary school on the first day of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran , a letter showed on Tuesday.
"A strike on a functioning school during class hours represents a grave assault on children, on education, and on the future of the entire community," Iran's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said in a letter to the council president dated March 23.
The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School consisted of two missile strikes in quick succession that killed 168 children, mostly girls, Iranian officials say.
According to a March report by news agency Reuters , US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe.
Sim said that on Monday, the Human Rights Council president received a letter from Iran's mission in Geneva on behalf of Iran, China and Cuba requesting another urgent debate.
That request, entitled "protection of children and educational institutions in international armed conflicts", will be discussed by the council bureau later on Tuesday, said Sim.
The Human Rights Council is holding its first session of the year, which opened on February 23 and runs until March 31. Rubio to meet G7 ministers in France on Iran US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet G7 counterparts in France on Friday on the war in Iran, the State Department announced.
The trip comes after President Donald Trump announced that the United States has been talking with Iran -- a claim denied by Tehran -- as he put on pause his threat to destroy the country's electricity production.
Rubio, in his first foreign trip since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, will join the G7 foreign ministers' talks in Cernay-la-Ville, near Versailles on the outskirts of Paris, the State Department announced Tuesday.
Rubio will speak to counterparts on the "Russia-Ukraine war, the situation in the Middle East and threats across the world to peace and stability," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.
France is the current head of the Group of Seven, the club of industrialized democracies that also includes Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan.
While all G7 nations are close US allies, none has unambiguously offered support for the assault on Iran, angering Trump.
G7 foreign ministers on Saturday came together to urge an "immediate and unconditional" end to Iranian attacks on US allies in the Middle East.