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‘No armed combatants, no fighting’: MSF issues Afghan hospital bombing report<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A wounded Afghan man, who survived a U.S. air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, receives treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul October 8, 2015. \u00a9 Mohammad Ismail \/<\/div>\n
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A M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res investigation into the Afghan hospital bombing by US forces has found that there were no armed combatants or weapons within the compound, and no fighting in the direct vicinity of the hospital at the time of the airstrikes.<\/div>\n
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In its\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0released on\u00a0Thursday, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF\/Doctors Without Borders) addressed the\u00a0\u201crelentless and brutal aerial attack by US forces\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which took place in Kunduz on October 3 and killed at least 30 people, including MSF staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MSF rules in the hospital were implemented and respected, including the ‘no weapon’ policy and MSF was in full control of the hospital at the time of the airstrikes,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the organization stated.<\/p>\n

The document also said there were\u00a0\u201cno armed combatants within the hospital compound and there was no fighting from or in the direct vicinity\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of the trauma center at the time of the strikes.<\/p>\n

The hospital was\u00a0\u201cfully functioning\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at the time of the airstrikes, with 105 patients admitted and surgeries taking place, according to the findings of the investigation.<\/p>\n

In addition, MSF said the\u00a0\u201cagreement to respect the neutrality of our medical facility based on the applicable sections of International Humanitarian Law was fully in place and agreed with all parties to the conflict prior to the attack.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite that neutrality, the hospital was still the target of a US airstrike, leading MSF to ask how such an attack was allowed to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question remains as to whether our hospital lost its protected status in the eyes of the military forces engaged in this attack \u2013 and if so, why,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0MSF said in its statement.<\/p>\n

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‘No armed combatants, no fighting’: MSF issues Afghan hospital bombing report A wounded Afghan man, who survived a U.S. air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, receives treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul October 8, 2015. \u00a9 Mohammad Ismail \/ A M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res investigation into the Afghan hospital bombing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,9413,10488,9559,9555,8114],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-kunduz","tag-kunduz-hospital","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-rt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14192,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}