Experts: Non-UN Gaza force may breach norms


What’s left: A woman sitting inside her damaged apartment, surrounded by the rubble of neighbouring residences, all devastated by Israeli bombardments, in Gaza City. With a ceasefire having been brokered in the Palestinian enclave in October, Prabowo is seeking to make good on the pledge he delivered at the UN General Assembly in September to send some 20,000 troops on a peacekeeping mission. — AP

Concerns are mounting over Jakarta’s recent shift in tone on its planned peacekeeping role in Gaza, with the government now weighing the option of sending troops under a United States-led stabilisation force rather than waiting for a United Nations mandate.

With a ceasefire having been brokered in the Palestinian enclave in October, President Prabowo Subianto is seeking to make good on the pledge he delivered at the UN General Assembly in September to send some 20,000 troops on a peacekeeping mission.

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