Doctors Without Borders delivered a petition, signed by more than 548,000 people, to the White House on Wednesday, asking US president Barrack Obama “to consent to an independent investigation.”
A US gunship repeatedly bombed the hospital in the early morning hours of October 3, killing 22 people, and injuring more than three dozen others.
The subsequent destruction of the hospital left several hundred thousand people without access to emergency trauma care, according to the charity organization.
“Attacking a protected site such as a hospital is a grave violation of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions. The precise GPS coordinates of the four-year-old MSF hospital in Kunduz were provided to U.S. and Afghan authorities in Washington and Kabul in the days prior to the bombing, and the hospital contained nearly 200 patients and staff at the time of the attack,” read the petition.
