CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers said on Wednesday they would continue consultations with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy over Egypt's plan for rebuilding the Gaza Strip, an alternative to Trump's proposed takeover of the Palestinian territory.

Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination.

CHANDLER, Ariz.—A half-dozen friends gathered at a hookah bar just outside of Phoenix for their regular hangout, when they came around to a topic that had animated them during the presidential election: what the future of Gaza would look like under President Trump.