Netanyahu tells Biden HIS 'red line' is 'destroying Hamas' and he 'won't let his foot off the gas': Israeli PM says stopping war in Gaza would be like 'leaving a quarter of the Nazi army in place and not going into Berlin'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at President Joe Biden on Monday morning laying out his own red line in Gaza. 

He has seen gaps emerge in the relationship with his strongest ally as Biden has urged him to think twice before launching the next phase of his assault on the Hamas terror group in Rafah, one of the last places were civilians are able to shelter on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip. 

'Look, it's either Israel or Hamas. There's no middle way. I mean, we have to have that victory,' he told 'Fox and Friends.' 

'We can't have three quarters of a victory. We can't have two thirds of a victory because Hamas will reconstitute itself with these four battalions in Rafah, reconquer the Gaza Strip, and do the October 7 massacre over and over and over again. 

'And for us, Israel, not merely for me, but the people of Israel that's a red line. We can't let Hamas survive.'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an interview with 'Fox and Friends' to hit back at President Joe Biden on Monday morning laying out his own red line in Gaza

A man walks past placards with photos of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel

Netanyahu has seen world support for his offensive following the October 7 Hamas attack evaporate as the death toll in Gaza spirals beyond 30,000 people.

He is under intense pressure to allow in more aid as humanitarian agencies warn that starvation is taking hold of a population battered by five months of war.

Biden initially stood with Netanyahu as his strongest backer, supporting his war aims of destroying Hamas and arguing that a ceasefire would merely give the group a chance to rearm and reorganize. 

But with other world leaders taking a tougher line against Israel, Biden has seen the left of his own party rebel.

On Saturday, he warned Netanyahu that his approach was undermining Israel's own interests and he spelled out a red line. 

'[Netanyahu] has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas,' he told MSNBC in an interview. 

'But he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. 

'He's hurting, in my view, he's hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world... it's contrary to what Israel stands for. And I think it's a big mistake.'

The president was asked if there was any 'red line' for his support of Israel, such as the invasion of the city of Rafah.

Displaced Palestinians shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip

Israeli soldiers pray in front of an armoured fighting vehicle at an area near the border with the Gaza Strip, at an undisclosed location in southern Israel

'It is a red line, but I'm never going to leave Israel,' he said, refusing to cut off military sales to Israel.

His growing frustration with Netanyahu spilled into public view two days earlier after the State of the Union address. 

He was caught on a hot mic describing how he had delivered tough words to the Israeli leader. 'I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting,' he could be heard saying.

Netanyahu, who heads a far-right coalition with a shaky hold on power, hit back on Sunday and Monday in interviews with American media.

Planes drop humanitarian aid over Gaza Strip as the Israeli attacks and blockades continue to cause famine in Gaza City

Biden told MSNBC Saturday that the Israeli PM is 'hurting Israel' by killing so many civilians

'We're going to do what is necessary to minimize civilian casualties, do the humanitarian aid, something that we believe in, but we have to destroy this terrorist Nazi army otherwise there's no future for anyone in the Middle East,' he said, promising not to 'get off the gas.'

And he added that it made no sense not to move into Rafah, where he said a quarter of Hamas' fighting force had taken shelter. 

'They're there in Rafah. This would be equivalent to saying, you know, after the Allies fought back, gone through Normandy, went through Germany and you'd say well, we'll leave a quarter of the Nazi army in place that we won't go into Berlin, the last stronghold,' he said.

And he rejected Biden's red line outright in an interview with Politico. He said the Israeli Defense Forces would invade Rafah and that most of the Arab world backed the move.

'We'll go there,' he said. 'We're not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again.'