This will be unlike any other peacekeeping mission Indonesia has been involved in. All past missions were under UN auspices, and they were sent to monitor and maintain ceasefires. Though still dangerous, our Blue Helmets were only allowed to use force in self-defense.

The mission to Gaza has a much wider scope that involves maintaining the precarious peace and ceasefire agreement, and includes the disarming Palestinian resistance groups. It carries more risk, and the ISF is authorized to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate.

Indonesia should be aware of what it is getting itself into.

The ISF is part of the 20-point Gaza peace plan from United States President Donald Trump, which had been in place since October. We should remain suspicious of hidden agendas behind the plan. The real estate US president has previously mentioned his intention to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

Israel reluctantly agreed to the ceasefire and to stop its ethnic cleansing and genocidal campaign to seize Gaza. That more than 200 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of others injured in the month following the Oct. 8 ceasefire agreement speaks to the insincerity of the ceasefire's terms.

Taking part in the ISF, there is the danger that Indonesia could be seen as complicit in whatever designs that Trump or Israel may have over Gaza. The UNSC resolution was only passed after the addition of a vague phrase mentioning a possible Palestinian state.