The families denounced Netanyahu’s plan to expand military operations. Yehuda Cohen, the father of Nimrod Cohen, an Israeli soldier held hostage in Gaza, said from the boat that Netanyahu is prolonging the war to satisfy extremists in his government and to prevent it from collapsing.

Aid airdrops continued over Gaza on Thursday (August 7), around a week after a global hunger monitor said a famine scenario is unfolding in the Strip. In the north of the enclave, father-of-four Abu Mohammed al-Omar said he managed to get lentils and tomato paste.