Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has labelled a proposed deal involving a ceasefire in Gaza a “dangerous trap” following renewed diplomatic pushes to halt the Gaza war. Smotrich wrote on X on Friday that any such deal that would end the war in Gaza Strip before the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas had been destroyed would allow Hamas to regroup and murder Jews again. He warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to fall into the “trap.” Qatar, Egypt and the United States, who are acting as mediators in the negotiations, urged Israel and Hamas on Thursday …