Hello and welcome to Newsour from the World Service of the BBC. This is Owen Bennett-Jones. Now, when a US president speaks, the world hears him, and that's certainly the case with remarks Donald Trump made on Air Force One last night. He was talking about the people who live in the Gaza Strip. And before

assessing the significance of what he said and getting reaction to it, let's just hear his words.

I'd like Egypt to take people and I'd like Jordan to take people. You're talking about

probably a million and a half people. We just clean out that whole thing.

And I don't know, something has to happen.

It's literally a demolition site right now.

Almost everything's demolished, and people are dying there.

So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations

and build housing at a different location

where they can maybe live in peace for a change.

It could be temporarily, it could be long term.

Well, that suggests the longstanding commitment to two states already rejected by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

is at the very least being significantly revised by the United States.

It is an issue that goes back centuries, but if you take the starting point, the very least being significantly revised by the United States.

It is an issue that goes back centuries.

But if you take the starting point as the creation of the state of Israel,

then according to the UN, the displacement of Palestinians from land that was to become Israel,

turned 700,000 Palestinians into refugees at that time.

Currently, there are more than 2 million UNRWA registered Palestine refugees in Jordan. That's the country that hosts the largest number.

And some of them are descendants of those who fled from or were forced from their homes in the

conflicts surrounding the formation of Israel. And of March 23, as of March

23, UNRA estimated no more than 250,000 Palestine refugees in Lebanon. And today, they say,

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