JAKARTA: Indonesia\u2019s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, said on Saturday that his country was willing to send peacekeeping troops to enforce a ceasefire in Gaza if required.
\nSpeaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia\u2019s premier security conference, Prabowo said US President Joe Biden\u2019s three-phase proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza was a step in the right direction.
\n\u201cWhen needed and when requested by the UN, we are prepared to contribute significant peacekeeping forces to maintain and monitor this prospective ceasefire as well as providing protection and security to all parties and to all sides,\u201d Prabowo said.
\nThe 72-year-old former special forces general and current Indonesian defense minister takes on the presidency of the world\u2019s most populous Muslim nation in October.
\nHe said President Joko Widodo had instructed him to announce that Indonesia was also ready \u201cto evacuate, to receive and to treat with medical care up to 1,000 patients\u201d from Gaza.
\nThe Indonesia Hospital in Gaza, which was run by an Indonesia NGO, closed in November amid the fighting.
\nPrabowo said a comprehensive investigation into the humanitarian disaster in the Rafah area of Gaza was needed as well as a \u201cjust solution\u201d to the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
\n\u201cAnd that means the rights of not only Israel to exist, but also the rights of the Palestinian people to have their own homeland, their own state, living in peace.\u201d
\nSeparately, the outgoing president, popularly known as Jokowi, condemned Israel\u2019s attack on Rafah and called on Israel to obey the International Court of Justice.
\n\u201cIsrael should have an obligation to obey international courts, including stopping offensive attacks against Palestine,\u201d Jokowi told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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