President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu via phone on Thursday following Hamas’ response to a hostage and cease-fire deal, Fox News Digital can confirm.

The leaders discussed a response by Hamas to a ceasefire deal and the release of the remaining 116 hostages who were captured by the terrorist group during the Oct. 7 attacks, which left nearly 1,200 people dead.

Netanyahu was set to convene his security cabinet to formulate a reaction to Hamas’ latest position, which could prove to be a pivotal step in ending the nine-month-long Israeli air and ground war that has devastated Gaza. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said the death toll in the war had climbed past 38,000, with at least 87,445 wounded.

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Neither the White House nor Netanyahu provided many details about the conversation, although Netanyahu is said to have congratulated Biden and the American people on the occasion of the U.S.'s commemoration of Independence Day.

Netanyahu said that without the U.S. there would be no freedom in the world and President Biden said that without Israel there would be no security for Jews in the world, per an Israeli spokesperson.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu updated President Biden on his decision to send a delegation to continue the hostage negotiations and reiterated the principles that Israel is committed to, especially its commitment to end the war only after all of its goals have been achieved," the spokesperson said. 

The U.S. has rallied world support behind a plan that would see the hostages still held by the militant group released in return for a lasting truce and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. However, until now, neither side appears to have fully embraced it. 

The current deal is reported to be based on a resolution outlined by President Biden in May and endorsed by the UN Security Council, which would begin with an initial six-week cease-fire and the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from populated areas in Gaza and the return of Palestinian civilians to all areas in the territory.

Phase two would see "a permanent end to hostilities, in exchange for the release of all other hostages still in Gaza, and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza." 

Phase three would launch "a major multi-year reconstruction plan for Gaza and the return of the remains of any deceased hostages still in Gaza to their families."

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Hamas suggested "amendments" to the proposal last month, some of which the U.S. said were unworkable, without providing specifics. The group sent another response Wednesday to Egypt and Qatar, which are mediating the talks, without providing details. A U.S. official said the Biden administration was examining the response, calling it constructive but saying more work needed to be done. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

Hamas political official Bassem Naim said that the group has neither accepted nor rejected the American proposal and has "responded with some ideas to bridge the gap" between the two sides, without elaborating.

However, the transition from the first to the second phase has appeared to be the main sticking point.

Hamas is concerned that Israel will restart the war after the first phase, perhaps after making unrealistic demands in the talks. Israeli officials have expressed concern that Hamas will do the same, drawing out the talks and the initial cease-fire indefinitely without releasing the remaining captives.

Israeli Channel 12, citing a senior Israeli official, reports that Hamas has withdrawn its demand for guarantees that Israel would end the war and withdraw entirely from Gaza in order for it to even agree to the first stage of the deal.

Additionally, the Hezbollah-linked newspaper Al-Akhbar reports that the Hamas plan involves Israel withdrawing troops from the Rafah Crossing area in agreement with Egypt but without having to fully withdraw from the key Philadelphi Corridor.

Netanyahu has been skeptical of the deal, saying that Israel is still committed to destroying Hamas. 

"The war will end once Israel achieves all of its objectives, including the destruction of Hamas and the release of all of our hostages," Netanyahu said in a video statement given in Hebrew earlier this week. Netanyahu was slamming a New York Times report quoting senior Israeli officials who claim some military brass want a cease-fire with Hamas. 

Over the past nine months, 109 hostages have been released, seven have been rescued by the Israel Defense Forces, and the bodies of 19 have been recovered by the military from Gaza, including three who were mistakenly killed by troops, The Times of Israel reports.

Fox News' Yonat Friling and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

A woman has taken to the Reddit page known as "AITA" to share a "weird" personal drama among family members after a fun food faceoff wasn't so much fun after all. 

Posting a question, the woman asked others if she was wrong "for calling out my father-in-law when he picked my MIL [mother-in-law] as the winner of a competition over my kids?"

The woman — going by the username "ScaleFlat338" — said on Thursday in her post that her in-laws held a "cooking decorating competition for the grandkids — my two daughters, [ages] 10 and 12, and my nieces, [ages] 12 and 13."

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She said that her mother-in-law also decorated "a cookie."

While the mother-in-law's cookie "was very impressive," the woman posting on Reddit said that she presumed her father-in-law "would pick one of the children as the winner."

The prize, she said, "was a gift card" — yet her father-in-law "picked my MIL as the winner."

Added the woman on social media, "I could see my girls were upset. [Then] my FIL called my younger daughter a bad sport."

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So, continued the woman, "I called my FIL out and told him it was weird to pick a grown woman over children and the kids really tried."

His response was that it was all "just for fun, and I was being silly."

At the end of it all, the mother-in-law "ended up feeling bad and said the kids could share the gift card."

Now, the Reddit poster's husband "thinks I made a scene for no reason" and that the mother-in-law deserved the prize.

So, said the woman sharing her story, was she wrong for what she did?

Over 3,000 people reacted to the "AITA" ("Am I the a--hole") post in just a few hours, with more than 700 people posting comments about it.

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In the top ranked comment so far, which earned over 8,000 "upvotes," a poster wrote, "This is the most pathetic thing I think I've ever heard. A grown woman needed to beat a bunch of preteens?"

This commenter went on, "MIL didn't specifically say, 'I'm not in the competition'? FIL didn't say, ‘This is just for kids’?"

The person added, "I mean, your daughters should learn to lose gracefully, yes. But I also think they should be empowered to call out obvious bulls---, such as ‘a man awarding his adult wife the prize in a fun competition for kids.’"

Said the same commenter, "Are all your husband's family dynamics this badly screwed up? Because this is so bizarrely adrift of any normal grandparent/child interaction that I suspect it's the tip of a massively toxic iceberg."

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Then came a warning to the woman who shared the family story.

"If your husband was brought up thinking this is normal and really believes his mother ‘deserved’ to win a cookie-decorating contest against her tween grandkids, you might want to keep an eye out for future weirdness."

Another responder summed it up this way: "So your FIL and MIL hosted a fun competition for their grandkids, one of the adult hosts decided to join, shocker, was better than the kids — and then FIL decided to make a show out of how much better an adult is at decorating cookies than a kid."

This commenter went on, "Was that by any chance some weird lesson your MIL/FIL wanted to teach the kids?"

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The person added, "I'm all for teaching kids the value of losing gracefully, but that competition was far removed from fair sportsmanship. If anything, you turned it into a lesson for your kids to call out BS when you see it."

The same person noted, "There's a reason adults are generally not allowed in competitions aimed for kids."

Said another person who weighed in on the drama online, "They should have had a junior category. Now, they just basically bought themselves a present. Which is fine. But maybe don't do it when you have visitors."

Fox News Digital reached out to a psychologist for insights.