Amman, Oct. 27 -- Commenting on the international security force to be created for maintaining security in Gaza, Jordan's leader King Abdullah-II has said that most nations who were willing to participate would likely reject any deployment of their troops to the task force if their role involved "enforcing" peace rather than maintaining it.
"What is the mandate of security forces inside Gaza? We hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it's peace enforcing, nobody will want to touch that," said King Abdullah.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC, the King said that Arab and international partners would only support a mission aimed at peacekeeping - not one that risked placing foreign troops in active conflict with Palestinian groups.
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