US President Donald Trump has reportedly blown up at Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu in an expletive-laden call, calling him “f–king crazy” and warning that “everybody hates you now”.

Axios quoted two US officials and a third source about the angry conversation, which appeared to be driven by Israel’s escalation in Lebanon threatening to implode peace talks with Iran.

Iran’s state media had earlier claimed Iran was suspending negotiations in protest against Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon.

In what one official said was one of Trump’s worst calls with Netanyahu since returning to office, the US president reportedly put a kibosh on Israel’s plans to strike the Lebanese capital Beirut.

One US official summarised Trump’s rant: “You’re f–king crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

A second source told Axios that Trump was “pissed” and at one point yelled at Netanyahu: “What the f— are you doing?”

After the call, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had spoken with “Bibi Netanyahu” and asked him “not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon”.

“He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi!,” he wrote.

“I also had a conversation with Representatives of the Leaders of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel, and its soldiers.

“Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them. Let’s see how long that lasts — Hopefully it will be for ETERNITY!”

However, Netanyahu later released a statement saying that he had told Trump Israel would still strike its targets in Beirut if Hezbollah did not stop attacking Israel.

Netanyahu also said Israel would continue its military operations in southern Lebanon.

Israel’s ground forces are pushing ​towards the Zaharani River, their deepest incursion in Lebanon in 25 years.

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X after the phone call.

Meanwhile, Lebanon announced ‌a partial ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, in what would amount to a limited de-escalation of the conflict.

According to Lebanon’s embassy in Washington, the agreement, which would not end the conflict in that country, calls for Israel to refrain from ‌strikes on Beirut and its suburbs controlled by Hezbollah, while the Iran-aligned group would halt its attacks on Israel.

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said the militia would support a full ceasefire across all Lebanon as a precursor to the withdrawal of Israeli troops. He did not say whether the group would stop its strikes on Israeli territory.

The halt to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah applies to the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said.

“Under the proposed arrangement, Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs would cease in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from carrying out attacks against Israel,” the Lebanese presidency said in a statement posted on X.

Lebanon said it would seek to expand the ceasefire in talks with Israel in Washington on Wednesday.

That could clear the path for renewed efforts to end the three-month-old war between the ⁠US and Iran, which has been stuck in limbo for weeks under a ‌fragile ceasefire ​as negotiators have been unable to agree on an initial framework for peace talks.

The Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on March 2 as an offshoot of the broader ​conflict and has ‌been entangled with it ever since.

Iran has insisted on a halt to Israeli attacks in Lebanon as a condition of any deal to end ​the war, while the US has said the two conflicts are separate.

Iranian state media said earlier Tehran was halting indirect negotiations with the US and might end a ceasefire that has largely held since early April, ​citing ​the war in Lebanon.

There was no direct confirmation of the ​reports from Iranian officials, and Trump told an NBC reporter that he had ‌not heard from Iran.

Since mid-March, Trump has repeatedly said he is close to signing a peace deal but has yet to do so. Despite the ceasefire, Iran and the United States have exchanged strikes several times over the past week.

Meanwhile, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, Esmaeil Qaani, threatened to expand its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab El Mandeb Strait, another chokepoint at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Iran has already bottled ​up maritime traffic in the Gulf that before the war provided one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas, sending prices sharply higher.

-with AAP