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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/29/isf-gaza-trump-international-force/
International Force at Heart of Trump's Gaza Plan Struggles to Find Takers
(Washington Post) Loveday Morris - The proposed deployment of an international force in Gaza, a crucial feature of President Trump's peace plan, is struggling, with several countries backpedaling on troop offers. Indonesia, which had announced it would send 20,000 peacekeeping troops, is now looking at providing 1,200 troops as an initial deployment. Azerbaijan has also reassessed. No Arab countries have committed to contributing soldiers. "They want the international stabilizing force to come into Gaza and restore 'law and order and disarm any resistance,'" a senior official in Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. "So that's the problem. Nobody wants to do that." Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has expressed skepticism over the feasibility of an international force. "We said, 'Go ahead, try.'" Israel is working on the assumption that it will eventually have to demilitarize Hamas itself because no one else will be willing, said Ofer Guterman, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies. "That understanding is sinking in both in Israel and in the U.S.," he said.