While the international outcry has been significant, history suggests this is less because of what happened and more because of whom it happened to. The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past but the targets have generally not been affiliated with a European, Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization such as MSF.
Below is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War. If you believe some significant examples are missing, please send them our way. To be clear, we’re looking for U.S. attacks on specifically civilian facilities, such as hospitals or schools.
Infant Formula Production Plant, Abu Ghraib, Iraq (January 21, 1991)
Air Raid Shelter, Amiriyah, Iraq (February 13, 1991)
Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory, Khartoum, Sudan (August 20, 1998)
Train bombing, Grdelica, Serbia (April 12, 1999)
Radio Television Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia (April 23, 1999)
Chinese Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia (May 7, 1999)
Red Cross complex, Kabul, Afghanistan (October 16 and October 26, 2001)
Al Jazeera office, Kabul, Afghanistan (November 13, 2001)
Al Jazeera office, Baghdad, Iraq (April 8, 2003)
Palestine Hotel, Baghdad, Iraq (April 8, 2003)
You can read the details @
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/07/a-short-history-of-u-s-bombing-of-civilian-facilities/
Not included in the list was what the US did to hospitals in Iraq during the 2004 siege of Fallujah:
Nov. 9, 2004 – In a series of actions over the weekend, the United States military and Iraqi government destroyed a civilian hospital in a massive air raid, captured the main hospital and prohibited the use of ambulances in the besieged city of Fallujah.
Saturday morning, witnesses in Fallujah reported that an overnight air strike by US fighter crews had completely razed a trauma clinic, which was recently constructed using Saudi donations. Also destroyed were two adjacent facilities used by health care providers.
You can read the rest @
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1208
And no Americans were held accountable then, either.
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