Indonesia ready to send peacekeepers, medical staff to Gaza
The Peninsula
Singapore: Indonesia is ready to send significant peacekeeping forces as well as medical personnel to Gaza if Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal...
Singapore: Indonesia is ready to send "significant peacekeeping forces" as well as medical personnel to Gaza if Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal, President-elect Prabowo Subianto said Saturday.
US President Joe Biden announced the Israeli roadmap to permanent peace in Gaza on Friday, as Israeli troops pushed into central Rafah despite international objections to any assault on the southern city.
Prabowo, who will succeed President Joko Widodo in October after winning the February elections, welcomed the plan, describing it as "an important step" to ending the war.
If requested by the United Nations, Indonesia was prepared to send "significant peacekeeping forces to maintain and monitor this prospective ceasefire", Prabowo told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
"We are also prepared to immediately send medical personnel to operate field hospitals in Gaza with the consent and agreement of all sides."