Pakistan, Nov. 15 -- Pakistan and 16 other countries,on Saturday condemned the Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, calling on Tel Aviv to protect civilians and medical facilities and ensure the sustained and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.

The deadliest single strike since Israel's elections last month hit the surgery ward of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis early on Thursday, killing at least six Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, and wounding nearly 30 others.

The Israeli military claimed it carried out an "aerial strike to eliminate the threat they posed, after the Hamas had established a presence within the hospital complex and used it as a command centre".

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