Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an angry response to remarks by a US official in which he described the Israeli leader a “chickenshit” and coward.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an angry response to remarks by a US official in which he described the Israeli leader a “chickenshit” and coward.

"Our supreme interests, chiefly the security and unity of Jerusalem, are not the main concern of those anonymous officials who attack us and me personally,” said Netanyahu who was addressing the Israeli parliament on Wednesday.

“I come under attack because I defend the interests” of the Israeli regime and its people, he added.

Earlier on Tuesday, a senior Official in the Obama administration decried Netanyahu as a “chickenshit,” in a sign that US relations with the Zionist entity have plunged to new depths of bitterness.

 “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” the unnamed official told the Atlantic when asked about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House the most.

 “The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars. The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states.

US State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said on Wednesday that Washington will not apologize to Tel Aviv over the controversy since the US statesman’s remark “isn’t the position of the administration.”

Washington and Tel Aviv have recently exchanged heated arguments over the Israeli regime’s plan to build more than 1,000 settler units in the occupied Palestinian lands.