The U.S. State Department fired its senior press officer for Israel and Palestinian affairs, Shahed Ghoreishi, following disagreements on key policy issues of the Trump administration, including the president’s controversial plan to transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. The Washington Post reported this based on American sources and documents reviewed by the newspaper. Ghoreishi was fired last Monday, a few days after an internal dispute at the U.S. State Department over a press statement he drafted that read: “We do not support the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.” Senior State Department officials vetoed the move, and Ghoreishi was fired.
