Biden official raised option of moving Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt: HuffPost

A report published on Friday by HuffPost stated that David Satterfield, who was appointed as a special Middle East humanitarian envoy by US President Joe Biden, raised the idea of moving Gaza civilians into Egypt during a high-level meeting last month.

The report cited an American official that was in the meeting.

HuffPost reported that Satterfield "backed off" the idea since then. Biden has publicly opposed the idea that Palestinians in Gaza be displaced to Egypt.

A State Department spokesperson told the news site in an email: "This reporting is false." 

"Special Envoy Satterfield has vociferously been against this, has not raised this as [a] policy consideration in any meeting, and has reiterated publicly and privately that the US does not support forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Not now, not after the war."