Trump hints at Gaza peace deal ahead of Netanyahu meeting

"We’re getting a very good response because Bibi wants to make the deal too," Trump said in a telephone interview, using Netanyahu’s nickname. "Everybody wants to make the deal."

When international leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York this week, the U.S. unveiled a 21-point Middle East peace plan to end the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

That plan calls for the return of all hostages, living and dead, no further Israeli attacks on Qatar and a new dialogue between Israel and Palestinians for “peaceful coexistence,” a White House official said.

A Hamas representative said on Saturday that the group had not seen the U.S. plan that was presented at the U.N.

"Everybody’s involved," he said. "Everybody wants it, and Hamas wants it, and one of the reasons is because everybody’s tired" of war.

Trump did not provide specific details of a prospective ceasefire-for-hostages agreement in Gaza, but Vice President JD Vance told “Fox News Sunday” that top U.S. officials are immersed in "very complicated" negotiations with Israeli and Arab leaders.

"The details of this have to be worked out. But in previous statements, I said that if leaders, if Hamas leaders, for example, are escorted out of the country, yeah, if they finish the war, release all the hostages. We let them out," he said.

Vance described himself as “cautiously hopeful” about reaching a deal.

"I feel more optimistic about where we are right now than where we have been at any point in the last few months, but let’s be realistic, these things can get derailed at the very last minute," he said.

He said the plan has three main components: Returning all hostages, ending the Hamas threat to Israel, and escalating humanitarian aid in Gaza.