President Donald Trump indicated that a peace deal between Israel and Hamas could be developing quickly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio was seen passing him a note during a roundtable on Wednesday.

Shortly after receiving the handwritten message from Rubio and a brief conversation between them, Trump announced that he was “just given a note by the secretary of state saying that we’re very close to a deal in the Middle East, and they’ll get to need me pretty quickly.”

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The note, captured in a photo by the Associated Press , read, “very close. We nee

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