The US Embassy in Libya denies a report of a plan to displace one million Palestinians to Libya.

The US Embassy in Libya denied on Sunday a report that the US government is working on a plan to transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya.

According to NBC News, the administration of US President Donald Trump is attempting to bribe one of the warring parties in Libya to accept one million Palestinians that Israel is trying to deport from Gaza. Libya became a failed state after the US-led regime-change war against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. According to NBC News, several US officials confirmed that the Trump administration was in negotiations with one of the rival Libyan governments. The report explains: "In exchange for resettling the Palestinians, the administration would likely release billions of dollars in funds that the United States had frozen more than a decade ago."

The NBC News report did not specify whether the United States was speaking with the Tripoli-based government led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah or the eastern government led by Khalifa Haftar. Libya has been in a state of civil war since US-backed jihadist rebels overthrew and killed Gaddafi in 2011.

Fighting has erupted in areas surrounding Tripoli in recent weeks. Both Libyan governments are accused of committing gross human rights violations, and the US State Department advises Americans not to travel to Libya "due to crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict."

This report comes as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have discussed proposals for the mass displacement of Palestinians in recent days. On Friday, the US president said, "I have very good ideas about Gaza: to make it a free zone. Let the United States get involved, and just make it a free zone."

He added, "I would be proud if the United States owned the Strip, took it over, made it a free zone, and we allowed some good things to happen. Put people in safe houses, and Hamas would have to be dealt with."

Trump floated a similar proposal earlier in his administration. At the time, he said Palestinians would be evacuated from the Gaza Strip and sent to live in refugee cities in third countries.

Speaking about the war in Gaza earlier this week, Netanyahu said Israel was prepared to force about a million Palestinians to leave Gaza, but was still looking for a country willing to accept the refugees. “But there is one problem: We need countries to take them in,” he continued. “That’s what we are working on now. If you give them a way out, I tell you, more than 50 percent will leave, in my opinion, much more.” He also told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “We are destroying more and more homes, and Gazans have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable result is that Gazans will want to emigrate outside the Gaza Strip.”

Since Israel launched its brutal war on Gaza, Israel and Washington have reached out to a number of countries to accept Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza by Israel. Many of these countries are facing numerous internal problems or active civil wars, such as Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Chad, and Syria.

NBC News reported that talks between Washington and Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa regarding the acceptance of Palestinians displaced from Gaza are still ongoing.

On Thursday, Trump met with the new Syrian leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa. Al-Julani is a veteran of al-Qaeda in Iraq and founded al-Qaeda's Syrian branch. Since taking power, al-Julani's government has been implicated in mass killings of Syrian minority groups.