TEL AVIV, Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss “victory over Hamas,” countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister said Sunday.

Tuesday’s meeting at the White House will be Trump’s first with a foreign leader since returning to office. It comes as U.S. and Arab mediators begin work of brokering the next phase of a ceasefire agreement to wind down the 15-month war in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of militant-held hostages.

Iran-backed Hamas, which has reasserted its control over Gaza since the ceasefire took hold last month, has said it will not release the hostages set to go free in the second phase without an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from far-right governing partners to resume the war after the first phase ends in early March. He has said Israel is committed to victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages captured in the militants’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.

Trump has been a staunch supporter of Israel but has also pledged to end wars in the Middle East and took credit for helping to broker the ceasefire agreement. The deal has paused the fighting and led to the release of 18 hostages as well as hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in central Gaza wounded five people Sunday, including a child who was in critical condition, according to Al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties. Israel’s military said it fired on the vehicle because it was bypassing a checkpoint while heading north in violation of the ceasefire agreement.

In a statement ahead of his departure, Netanyahu also said he and Trump would discuss “achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis in all its components,” referring to Iran’s alliance of militant groups across the region, including Hamas.

He said by working together, they could “strengthen security, broaden the circle of peace and achieve a remarkable era of peace through strength.”