The Palestinian Authority has called for Australia to play a significant role in an international stabilisation force in Gaza, including sending peacekeeping troops to help establish law and order in the ravaged enclave.

The Palestinian Authority’s deputy foreign minister, Omar Awadallah, said it was vital for the international community to move quickly to establish a United Nations-endorsed peacekeeping force to ensure the fragile ceasefire did not collapse and that Israeli troops withdraw from almost all of the Gaza Strip.

US President Donald Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he was able to secure a long-term peace in Gaza after two years of ferocious Israeli bombardments, he added.

“I think Australia can help in so many aspects, including by sending forces, by sending experts, by supporting the training of Palestinian security personnel,” Awadallah told this masthead from the de facto Palestinian capital of Ramallah.

“We believe that we need to see principled countries like Australia [involved in a stabilisation force] because we don’t want any kind of a trusteeship or new kind of occupation for the Palestinian territory.”

An Australian presence would help convince Palestinians that the stabilisation force is “really coming to stabilise the situation, not to have another kind of occupation” in Gaza, he said.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government would consider ways Australia could contribute to an international stabilisation force in Gaza.

The government said last week it would send an Australian Defence Force liaison officer to the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre in Israel to help contribute to efforts to stabilise the region.