US EditionIndonesia says its 20,000 Gaza peacekeepers would focus on health and infrastructure
- Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin announced in Jakarta that Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops prepared for health and construction tasks in Gaza on Friday.
- Washington has discussed Indonesia as a potential contributor alongside Azerbaijan, Egypt and Qatar, and Foreign Minister Sugiono said Indonesia would require a United Nations Security Council mandate to participate this month.
- Officials say there is no decision yet on timing or mandate, and Prabowo Subianto will decide after discussing the U.S. initiative with Jordan's King Abdullah during the state visit.
- Last week, Reuters reported a U.S. draft would authorise the International Stabilization Force to use all necessary measures to demilitarise Gaza, while Marco Rubio said it should provide everyday security, not fight.
- Indonesia has no diplomatic relations with Israel and analysts say Prabowo Subianto's last month's U.N. speech balanced calls for Palestinian statehood with guarantees for Israel's safety.
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They are supposed to restore basic supplies, help with reconstruction: Indonesia would provide a large number of soldiers for a Uno peace mission in the Gaza Strip. The EU is advising on the training of Palestinian police forces.
Gaza hospital receives 15 Palestinian bodies under ceasefire
Gaza's Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis said it received the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Friday as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. In a statement, the hospital said that: "15 bodies of Palestinian martyrs arrived at Nasser Medical Complex as part of the thirteenth batch of the body exchange deal, bringing the total number of bodies received to 330 martyrs." Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was …
Indonesia says its Gaza peacekeepers would focus on health,
JAKARTA: Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops to take on health and construction-related tasks during a planned peacekeeping operation in the war-torn enclave of Gaza, the defense minister said on Friday. The world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia is among the countries with which the United States has discussed plans for a multinational stabilization force in
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