A senior Israeli official hit back on Tuesday at a US intelligence report published overnight that warned the viability of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “may be in jeopardy” amid criticism over the management of the war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

“Those who elect the prime minister of Israel are the citizens of Israel and no one else,” said the official in a statement issued to the media, interpreting the intelligence report as an effort to unseat Netanyahu. ...

Opening its main nightly news broadcast, Channel 12 said that the statement came from “the most senior Israeli political source you can imagine,” and added that the US report had left the prime minister “fuming.”