Today, early Tuesday, Israeli military cars stormed the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, which is under Palestinian security control, in the first of its kind since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the cessation of work on understandings and agreements with the Israeli and American governments.
"The Israeli army entered the city to carry out arrests and search campaigns," the French Press Agency quoted a spokesman for the Palestinian Interior Ministry, Ghassan Nimer, as saying.
Nimr said that "the occupation forces stormed the city of Ramallah and its neighboring camp, Al-Amari, with great force last night, in order to carry out arrests, and this is the first time that the occupation forces stormed the city of Ramallah since the conclusion of the agreements, including stopping the work in security coordination."
For its part, security sources indicated that "the Israeli army arrested two people from the north of the city and two people from Al-Amari camp, as well as two houses were stormed and searched."
The Israeli army confirmed that an arrest operation had taken place in Al-Amari camp, but gave no details.
There were clashes between Palestinian youths and the Israeli army during the storming operation, but no injuries were reported, according to Palestinian sources.
Agreements and warning
In Ramallah, there are all headquarters of the Palestinian leadership, in addition to the house of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who announced last May that the Palestinian Authority is in a position of all agreements and understandings with the Israeli and American side, including security coordination, and against the background of Israel's intention to include parts Wide from the West Bank.
The Oslo agreement - signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization with the Israeli government in 1993 - allowed the Israeli side to make arrests of Palestinians inside the territories under Palestinian security control, but through coordination with the Palestinian side, but Abbas announced that he was in the dissolution of this agreement.
Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh warned of a "hot summer" if Israel implemented its annexation plan.
Destruction of confidential documents
In anticipation of any Israeli move, the Palestinian security services destroyed classified documents after they were transferred to electronic folders, in anticipation of Israeli incursions similar to the ones that were carried out in 2000 in the occupied West Bank, according to security sources said earlier today.
"We have received high orders to destroy the confidential documents we have, and we have implemented these orders secretly," the sources said - who preferred to remain anonymous - to the French press.
She emphasized that the process of destruction took place for fear that the Israeli occupation army might storm Palestinian lands under Palestinian security control and obtain those documents.
One of the security sources indicated that the information was transferred to electronic folders before destroying the original paper documents, and the folders were placed in secret locations.