Biography of the u s bombs hospital

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

Twenty-two patients and hospital staff members were killed when American bombs hit the hospital late Saturday night.

MSF President Joanne Liu acknowledged in a statement emailed to ThinkProgress that she received an apology from the president but reiterated demands for an independent investigation into the bombing.

MSF previously stated that if Afghan and U.S. forced “decided to raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital” the action would be considered a war crime.

According to the Geneva Conventions, which the U.S.

ratified in 1955, “Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.”