Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generations JERASH CAMP, Jordan (AP) — As a boy, Palestinian Abdullah Abu Massoud fled the war over the birth of Israel in 1948 and sought refuge in the nearby Gaza Strip. The plight of Palestinians uprooted by Israeli-Arab wars is one of the world's longest-running refugee crises, and a solution would likely require setting up a state of Palestine that would take in large numbers of them. [...] a solution appears distant, even as President Donald Trump says he wants to try to broker an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. [...] hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are being displaced again by regional conflicts, including civil war in Syria. The head of the U.N.