Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented a proposal to annex parts of the Gaza Strip to the security cabinet in an effort to prevent the resignation of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. According to Anadolu Agency, the plan involves Israel declaring that it will give the Palestinian group Hamas a few days to agree to a ceasefire. If Hamas does not comply, Israel will begin annexing areas of the enclave until Hamas surrenders. The report also mentioned that the plan has received approval from the Trump administration, framing it as a political maneuver by Netanyahu to maintain the stability of his governing coalition by appeasing Smotrich. The timing of the plan coincides with heightened political tensions inside Israel. Smotrich recently threatened to resign after Netanyahu claimed Israel was allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite a deliberate starvation policy that has triggered a catastrophic famine in the besieged enclave. Smotrich, however, walked back his thre at earlier, following Netanyahu's invitation to him and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to attend a cabinet meeting after previously being excluded from decisions about aid to Gaza. These developments followed an Israeli military announcement authorizing limited airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip and implementing what the army called a 'localized tactical suspension of military activity' to allow aid convoys to pass. However, several international organizations have dismissed these steps as insufficient, labeling them a distraction from the broader crisis. Humanitarian agencies and rights groups accuse Israel of using hunger as a weapon against civilians in Gaza.