More than 40 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a cafe near the port in Gaza City, according to the head of the territory’s largest hospital.

Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said.

Israel held a memorial ceremony on Monday (June 30) for members of a Ukrainian family who were killed in an Iranian strike on the coastal city of Bat Yam. Mayor Tzvika Brot said that the attack on Bat Yam which killed nine people was the "the biggest disaster" the city had ever seen.