The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the plan of his security cabinet to take over Gaza is more expansive than previously announced, with a fight on Monday that Israel “has no choice but to end the track and complete Hamas’s defeat.”
The Netanyahu office originally announced the acquisition on Friday, but he now says that the operations will not only include Gaza City, but also in the “central camps” and Muwasi. The last areas are the home of more than 500,000 people. The Israeli Prime Minister says that he talked to President Donald Trump about the plan and says he thanked him for the ‘steadfast support’ of America.
“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza,” said Netanyahu Monday. His office says that the goals behind the acquisition are to completely eradicate Hamas everywhere in Gaza before he stabilizes the region and ultimately hands leadership to friendly Arabian troops against Hamas.
De vrijdagaankondiging van het beveiligingskabinet zei dat het bij stemmen vijf principes heeft aangenomen om de oorlog af te ronden, waaronder: de ontwapening van Hamas, de terugkeer van alle gijzelaars – levend en overleden – de demilitarisering van de Gazastrook, de Israëlische veiligheidscontrole in de Gazastrook en de oprichting van een alternatieve civiele administratie die noch Hamas noch de Palestiniteit is.
Israel security cabinet approves the plan to occupy Gaza City
An Israeli tank enters Israel from Gaza, July 28, 2025. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
The plan gives the green light to Minister of Defense Israel Katz to call more than 400,000 military reservists to perform the operation until November 30.
The news about the operation comes that many of the old allies of Israel have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state. France announced such a willingness earlier this year, while the United Kingdom and Canada followed in the last two weeks. Australia was the last country to do this on Sunday.
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“Australia will Recognize the right of the Palestinian people to their own state, based on the commitments that Australia has received from the Palestinian authority, “said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanian, referring to the administrative tense of the Palestinian territories of the western Jordoever.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the acquisition of Israel from Gaza will expand beyond Gaza City. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
Those commitments, he said, include the demilitarization of Gaza and holding elections – without a role for Hamas in a Palestinian government. Australia has designated Hamas A terrorist entity And Albanian repeated the calls of his government on Monday to return the group to return Israeli hostages who have been held since the massacre of 7 October 2023.
“A two-state solution is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to put an end to the conflict, suffering and hunger in Gaza,” said Albanian.
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The prime minister said that the situation there “passed the worst fears in the world.” He accused the Israeli government of continuing “to defy international law and refuse sufficient help, food and water for desperate people, including children.”
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanian announces that Australia will recognize a Palestinian state during a press conference in Canberra, Monday 11 August 2025. (Mick Tsikas/AAP image via AP)
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In the meantime, the US continued to defend Israel against accusations of genocide in the United Nations. Other rival countries in the UN Security Council are all too willing to criticize Israel, with China condemning the situation in Gaza as alleged “collective punishment” and Russia calls it a “reckless intensification of hostilities” during a safety meeting on Sunday.
