Netanyahu extends the Gaza control plan to include Central Camps, Muwasi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the plan of his security firm to take over Gaza is larger than planned previously, saying on Monday that Israel “has no choice but to finish work and finish the defeat of Hamas”.

Netanyahu’s office initially announced the takeover on Friday, but it now says that operations will not only include Gaza City, but also in “central camps” and Muwasi. These last areas are home to many more than 500,000 people. The Israeli Prime Minister said he spoke to President Donald Trump of the plan and said he thanked him for the “firm support” in America.

“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to release Gaza,” Netanyahu said on Monday. His office indicates that the objectives behind the takeover are to fully eliminate Hamas everywhere in Gaza before stabilizing the region and ultimately put the leadership to the Arab forces opposite to Hamas.

The announcement of Friday of the security firm declared that it had adopted, by vote, five principles to conclude the war, in particular: the disarmament of Hamas, the return of all the hostages – living and deceased – the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, control of Israeli security in the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of an alternative to the civil administration which is neither a hamlet nor the authority of the press.

The Israeli security firm approves the occupation plan of Gaza City

An Israeli reservoir between Israel of Gaza on July 28, 2025. (Reuters / Amir Cohen)

The plan gives the green light to the Minister of Defense Israel Katz to call more than 400,000 military reservists to carry out the operation until November 30.

The news of the operation comes because of many longtime allies in Israel have announced its intention to recognize a Palestinian state. France has announced such a desire earlier this year, while the United Kingdom and Canada have followed in the past two weeks. Australia was the last country to do so on Sunday.

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“”Australia 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 Albanese, referring to the govering entity of the Palestinian regions of the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the takeover of Israel of Gaza will develop beyond Gaza City. (Jacquelyn Martin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

These commitments, he said, understood the demilitarization of Gaza and the holding of the elections-without role for Hamas in a Palestinian government. Australia has appointed Hamas A terrorist entity And Albanian repeated his government calls on Monday to make the group returning the Israeli hostages held since the massacre of October 7, 2023.

“A solution to two states is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and put an end to the conflict, to suffering and to famine in Gaza,” said Albanese.

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The Prime Minister said that the situation “had gone beyond the worst fears of the world”. He accused the Israeli government of continuing to “challenge international law and refuse sufficient help, food and water for desperate people, including children”.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at a press conference in Canberra on Monday, August 11, 2025. (Image Mick Tsikas / AAP via AP)

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Meanwhile, the United States continued to defend Israel against the accusations of genocide in the United Nations. Other rival nations in the United Nations Security Council was too ready to criticize Israel, however, China condemning the situation to Gaza as the alleged “collective punishment” and Russia calling it “reckless intensification of hostilities” during a security meeting on Sunday.

Bradford Betz of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report