WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a hostage deal in the Israel-Hamas war.

Biden made the remark to a Reuters reporter at the White House on Monday morning.

This comes as the Biden administration irons out a “take it or leave it” deal alongside Egypt and Qatar to present to the Israeli government and Hamas, The Washington Post reports.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also met in the White House situation room on Monday morning to receive an update on the deal and discuss next steps with their co-mediators.

“You can’t keep negotiating this,” an anonymous senior Biden administration official told the Post. “This process has to be called at some point.”

If both sides fail to accept the deal, the official told the outlet, it could mark the end of US-led negotiations in the Israel-Hamas war.

Officials from the US, Egypt and Qatar were already working on the deal before Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in Gaza over the weekend.

The Israel Defense Forces said the hostages were killed “shortly before” they were set to be rescued.

Meanwhile, some half a million Israelis have held protests demanding Netanyahu agree to a ceasefire deal that will help bring the hostages home. Histadrut, a major Israeli labor union, also called for a nationwide general strike on Monday to pressure the prime minister.

Israeli forces have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians — most of them women and childrens — according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and displaced most of the 2.3 million people in Gaza.