Channel 12 news reported that the outburst had come after Netanyahu told Biden that Israel was moving forward with negotiations on a ceasefire deal with Hamas and would soon send a delegation to resume talks.

“Don’t take the president for granted,” Biden reportedly said at the end of Thursday’s conversation. 

Netanyahu’s office responded to Saturday’s report by saying that the premier “does not intervene in American politics and will work with whoever is elected president, and expects the Americans to also not intervene in Israeli politics.”

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that Biden had said during the call that the Wednesday assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran was “poorly timed,” coming “right at what the Americans hoped would be the endgame” of talks for a ceasefire and captives release deal.

Biden had previously accused Netanyahu of dragging out the war in Gaza to remain in power.

Asked in an interview with Time Magazine published in June whether he accepts the allegation made by some that Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his political self-preservation, Biden said “There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion." 

Moreover, senior Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and army chief Herzi Halevi, were reported Saturday evening to have told Netanyahu that his insistence on "new terms" would sabotage the ceasefire-captive deal currently under negotiation.

Channel 12 news quoted both Halevi and Gallant as accusing Netanyahu of being well aware that the new conditions he is demanding, which have reportedly been included in an updated Israeli proposal, would doom the deal.

The new proposal is said to demand an inspection mechanism be put in place to ensure Hamas fighters are not able to move to Gaza’s north, keep Israel's control of the Gaza-Egypt border known as the Philadelphia Corridor, during the first phase of the deal, and insist on Israel receiving a list of all living captives Hamas will release as part of the deal, according to Times of Israel.

None of those demands appeared in an Israeli proposal publicly revealed by US President Joe Biden on 31 May.

“There is no security reason to delay the deal. Since we’re speaking candidly, I am telling you that you are making considerations that are not beneficial to the matter,” Gallant was quoted as telling Netanyahu during a top-level security meeting on Wednesday night.