Although the White House is pushing to resume ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, President Donald Trump and his closest aides are worried that Israel’s brazen strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar this week has derailed such negotiations — possibly for good.

The administration’s frustrations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have deepened since the Israeli strike on Tuesday, according to a person close to the president’s national security team and a U.S. official familiar with the situation, both granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. In fact, Trump and top aides have come to question whether Netanyahu, who authorized the strike and has threatened more, was trying to sabotage the talks, according to the person close to Trump’s team.

“Every time they’re making progress, it seems like he bombs someone,” the person said. “That’s why the president and his aides are so frustrated with Netanyahu.”

Reports from the region have suggested that Israel failed to kill the top Hamas members it was targeting but hit others in the group in Doha.

At the same time, the two people said, the White House has been working to calm the Qataris, whose top leaders have used words such as “barbaric” to describe the Israeli move.

Qatar’s prime minister will be visiting New York and Washington on Friday, and is expected to meet U.S. officials to discuss the Israeli strike and the status of ceasefire talks in Gaza, according to a person familiar with his visit. He is expected to see Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump peace envoy Steve Witkoff.

The person close to the president’s national security team said Rubio has also spoken in recent days with the Qatari premier, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, about prioritizing a plan to expand its defense cooperation agreement with the U.S. Rubio is scheduled to visit Israel next week. It’s not clear if he will swing by Qatar, but such trips usually involve stops in multiple capitals.

The initial response from the White House, a statement from spokesperson Karoline Leavitt at Tuesday’s briefing, made clear that Trump was frustrated with Israel’s decision to carry out a mission inside Qatar, a key partner and home to a major American military base that Trump visited in May.

The administration has also stressed that it learned about the attack from the U.S. military, and that Israel did little to notify and did not consult with U.S. officials in advance.

Leavitt’s initial statement asserted that the administration had warned officials in Doha ahead of the strike. After a Qatari official responded online and noted that they’d received no such warning, Trump amended Leavitt’s statement in a post on social media, saying that Israel hadn’t given the White House an adequate warning about the attack, and that phone calls from special envoy Steve Witkoff to Qatari officials came “too late.”

According to a defense official, also granted anonymity to discuss the internal conversations, “the vague notice given was wholly insufficient [and] lacked the specifics needed to adequately warn regional partners.”

That’s partly why Trump’s statement, which went further than Leavitt had, was so blunt in declaring that the decision was “made by Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me.”

He continued: “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.”

“That was the most publicly critical I’ve seen a Republican president be of an Israeli leader in quite some time,” the person close to Trump’s national security team said.

Trump’s phone call with Netanyahu on Tuesday, the first of two conversations between them following the attack, was even more “heated,” the person added. “The president was very displeased, and he made that known.”

The tense phone conversation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

When Trump traveled to the Middle East in May, he opted not to visit Israel. And he told leaders in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that, even then, he’d grown frustrated with Netanyahu, the person close to his team said.

According to the U.S. official, Trump’s “inability to control Netanyahu” is especially vexing to American officials when the Israeli prime minister makes moves that directly affect U.S. relations in places such as Syria and Qatar. The official was unaware, however, of any Trump administration plans to penalize Netanyahu.

The Israeli attack has frustrated many Arab countries who had staked hopes on the Qatar-led mediation to end the fighting in Gaza. The war in the strip has angered many of these countries’ populations, leaving their governments — which tend to be monarchies or otherwise autocracies — worried about their own stability.

Netanyahu’s threat in the days since the Qatar strike that Israel will attack any country that hosts Hamas representatives is particularly worrisome for U.S. allies because it could undermine efforts at mediation in many places.

There’s also the question of whether Hamas itself will engage in talks now.

As far as Qatar, the “focus is on our national security and sovereignty, which were directly threatened by this attack. All other political considerations have taken a back seat,” a Qatari official said, having been granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. “When one party chooses to bomb the mediator and one of the negotiating delegations, what kind of talks can be considered valid?”

Paul McLeary and Felicia Schwartz contributed to this report.