Indonesia ready to send peacekeepers, medical staff to Gaza
AFP, Singapore
Published: 02 Jun 2024, 12:07 AM
Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration under the slogan ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas in front of the US embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday.—AFP PHOTO
Muslim-majority 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.