“The president offered up his personal apology”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
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However, the global president of the MSF has labelled the actions a war crime and called for an external inquiry.
US President Barack Obama apologised admitting the strike was a blunder.
The group also criticized “the inconsistencies in the USA and Afghan accounts” of how a hospital whose location was known ended up as the target of a half-hour air raid.
Obama told Doctors Without Borders that the US would review the attack to determine whether changes to USA military procedures could reduce the chances of a similar incident. It was “the biggest loss of life for our organization in an airstrike”, Liu said.
Footage released by Doctors Without Borders Wednesday shows the organization’s facility in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in shambles after a us military airstrike. “This cannot be tolerated”, he said.
As it calls for the IHFFC to investigate Saturday’s airstrike, MSF has released this video of daily operations at the trauma center in 2011, 2014 and 2015, including footage taken after the us bombing.
The worldwide Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, which was established by the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions, is the only permanent body set up specifically to investigate violations of global humanitarian law.
The U.S. military has already vowed to conduct an investigation and says the air strike was a mistake.
On Thursday, MSF officials repeated earlier statements that the hospital’s location had been clearly indicated to all parties and that no Taliban fighters were occupying the site, as a few Afghan government officials initially stated.
MSF Switzerland General Director Bruno Jochum said there was no confusion and no doubt that the MSF building was targeted as it was targeted at least four or five times in an hour, He added other buildings around the hospital were not damaged.
“However, we reiterate our ask that the U.S. government consent to an independent investigation led by the global Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to establish what happened in Kunduz, how it happened, and why it happened”.
“If errors were committed, we will acknowledge them”, Campbell said.
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MSF has said that all parties fighting in Kuduz had been made aware of the location of the hospital.
