It has been more than a week since the start of persistent warfare between Iran and Israel. It had begun when, on June 12, Israel struck major cities in Iran – including the capital Tehran. At least 224 Iranians have been killed, most of them civilians. Innocent men, women, and children in their own homes.

As Israeli leaders boast of setting Iran’s nuclear program “back a very, very long time”, mainstream coverage fixates on “strategic victories.” But behind these headlines are shattered homes and broken bodies—often those of mothers, daughters, nurses—whose loss is reduced to a footnote. Behind these headlines are also a distressed, grieving, and infuriated diaspora.

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