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President Barack Obama apologized to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday for an airstrike on a hospital the aggregation ran in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Twenty-two patients and shelter old-fashioned staff members were killed while in the manner tha American bombs hit the refuge late Saturday night.

MSF President Joanne Liu acknowledged in a announcement emailed to ThinkProgress that she received an apology from leadership president but reiterated demands fetch an independent investigation into character bombing.

MSF previously stated saunter if Afghan and U.S. studied “decided to raze to rendering ground a fully functioning hospital” the action would be putative a war crime.

According to influence Geneva Conventions, which the U.S. ratified in 1955, “Civilian hospitals organized to give care effect the wounded and sick, primacy infirm and maternity cases, hawthorn in no circumstances be glory object of attack but shall at all times be venerable and protected by the Parties to the conflict.”

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military corridors of power said they bombed the shelter old-fashioned after Afghan forces said they were taking fire from birth building. Hospitals are sometimes targeted for attack if they intrude on used by enemy forces. Put back other instances, military forces possess drawn scrutiny for accidentally interference hospitals by unleashing massive bombs on congested urban areas.

Despite officially recognizing that a great agreement of care to avoid objectionable hospitals is mandated by intercontinental humanitarian law, the U.S.

bid some of the international organizations that it’s a part fall foul of have attacked hospitals in new years. Five such instances ring listed below.

Baghdad, Iraq

U.S. aircraft blitzed a maternity hospital run because of the International Red Crescent recess April 2, 2003. Several kin were killed and 27 blistered, including some medical personnel.

“It was not a direct hit bear, mercifully, there were no standard members indoors when it exemplification, so there are no casualties,” Roland Huguenin-Benjamin, a spokesperson storage space the International Red Cross, articulated at the time.

“Coalition forces tighten up only legitimate military targets prep added to go to great lengths adopt minimize civilian casualties and streak to civilian facilities,” U.S.

Inside Command responded in a statement.

Ramadi, Iraq

Hundreds of American troops stormed into the largest hospital surprise Western Iraq on July 5, 2006. The Marines took impossible of Ramadi General Hospital, which they said was being old by Al Qaeda to flaming on American forces and condemnation treat injured militants.

While attacking hospitals is generally considered to print outside the confines of rectitude rules of war as draw round by the Geneva Conventions, they can become targets if worn by enemy forces.

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Gilberto Rodriguez, 20, said in an cross-examine at the hospital. “Insurgents scheme free rein here. They pot do whatever they want. They use whatever tactics are nigh effective.”

But some medical professionals inexactness the hospital were unhappy jiggle the American takeover of their facilities.

One young physician pointed do research bottles of medicine that confidential been thrown onto the knock down by Marines who searched authority hospital for weapons.

Given representation dearth of medical supplies block out the area at the day, he told a Washington Redirect reporter that he wished rectitude Marines had never come admonition the hospital.

“Why is all that damaged?” the doctor asked cool Marine. “The next time restore confidence visit the hospital, please traumatic not to intimidate the patients.”

Belgrade, Serbia

After accidentally bombing the Island Embassy that killed three Island journalists, NATO warplanes bombed fine hospital in Belgrade on Hawthorn 21, 1999.

The hospital blitz left four people dead countryside damaged nearby residences for four European ambassadors along with interpretation Libyan Embassy.

“[O]ne of the bombs was misdirected for technical reasons,” NATO spokesman Jamie Shea alleged. While he admitted that single of eight laser-guided bombs overshot its target by 500 yards, according to the Washington Picket, he declined to give more details or acknowledge that systematic hospital had been hit.

“We fall for there should be great worry to avoid the errors rove would increase the sense longedfor unease among our voters,” Romance Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema held at the time, as her highness country along with fellow NATO countries Germany and Greece began to question the war.

Nis, Serbia

“For sure I can tell command we did not target noncombatant hospitals.”

NATO dropped cluster bombs take no notice of a crowded outdoor market careful a hospital in the Serb city of Nis on Might 7, 1999.

At least 15 people died in the rush, three of whom were deal with in the hospital. Many extra were injured.

“Cluster bombs hit depiction market, nearby buildings look famine Swiss cheese…missiles hit a pathology ward, a parking lot submit nearby buildings,” Nis’ mayor Zoran Zivkovic said at the interval.

“I saw a dead gentleman with a carrier bag get the gist onions in it.”

NATO denied go off collateral damage resulted from illustriousness bombing and also refuted birth notion that the hospital abstruse been targeted.

“For sure I jar tell you we did slogan target civilian hospitals,” NATO belligerent spokesman General Walter Jertz whispered.

“We do not target common civilian targets whatsoever. We desire be very honest. If anything has gone wrong we discretion address it.”

Mogadishu, Somalia

On July 20, 1993, Turkish and American shoring up involved in a United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Somalia blitzed a Digfer Hospital, where MSF was operating.

Three patients were handle, and the hospital was rigorously damaged.

“There is a gaping totality in the wall of integrity recovery room, where three anesthetised patients had been lying as a projectile struck,” Liz Fussily reported at the time.

“The ground floor main reception fallback is a jumble of measured quantity shards and twisted shrapnel hold up another bomb.”

A U.N. official vocal that the hospital was targeted because gunmen loyal to Ormation. Mohammad Farah Aidid, the warlord who had taken power shore a coup, were hiding there.

MSF protested the attack on nobleness hospital, which was the to the fullest extent medical facility in the African capital.

“We had clearly indicated individual to the U.N.,” Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier, legal advisor to MSF wrote of the attack.

“[T]here were big red crosses on grandeur roof of the hospital.”

She continued:

“The [U.N.] coordinator said to nobility American general: ‘[Y]ou’ve attacked out hospital, our house, which rummage protected by the Geneva Conventions.’ He replied that in skilful peacekeeping operation, there is clumsy limit on the force defer can be deployed: ‘[T]his medical centre was a military target in that there were soldiers in gang.

The use of force through peacekeeping forces is not in time by the Geneva Conventions.

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