The US Embassy in Tripoli denied a report that the President’s government Donald Trump It processes a plan that provides for the relocation of 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya.

On Thursday, the NBC News reported that the Republican government is preparing a plan to permanently relocate up to one million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave to Libyan territory.

The television network cited five sources of the informed, including two persons who have immediate knowledge and US former official.

The report “On the complained plans for the relocation of Gaza residents in Libya is untrue,” the US embassy in Tripoli said via X.

A representative of the National Unity Government (CCI) was not available to comment.

President Trump has repeatedly said this year that his country wants to “take” the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian population to relocate elsewhere.

The Palestinians categorically reject any plan to abandon the enclave and liken the idea of ​​Nakba (“destruction”) of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of their ancestors were expelled from their place to the war that led to its establishment.

When Donald Trump threw the idea, he said he wanted US allies, especially Egypt and Jordan, to welcome Palestinians from Gaza. Both Aman and Cairo rejected this idea, which caused an international outcry. The Palestinians, the Arab states and the UN stressed that its implementation would be equivalent to national purification.

In April, the US president came back, stating that the Palestinians could relocate “in various countries, there are abundant countries” that would welcome them.

During his visit to Qatar this week, Mr Trump once again expressed his desire for Washington to “take” the enclave and turn it into a “freedom zone”. He also said that there was nothing left in the Gaza Strip that is “worth it”. Earlier this year, he said that the seaside area wanted to turn into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.