Officials and Scientists Remembered in Mass Funeral After Recent Strikes

For the families of the deceased, the funeral was a moment of both public exposure and private devastation. Many wept openly as state officials offered condolences, and some mothers fainted from grief. Children of the victims clung to the hands of elder relatives, their stunned gazes hinting at the complex personal losses that so often remain obscured by the political theater of national mourning. State television made a point of highlighting these intimate scenes, providing a human face to what the leadership framed as a broader national narrative.