The Palestinian arena has recently been dealing with the repercussions of an incident that suggests the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel exchange information on prisoners in order to prevent armed operations against Israel. On April 9, three Palestinian men were arrested in Ramallah by the Palestinian security services in coordination with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which brought back to the minds of the Palestinians the issue of security coordination between the PA and the IDF.

On March 31, Bassel al-Araj, 33, from Bethlehem; Haitham Siyaj, 23, from Hebron; and Mohammed Harb, 19, from Jenin, who were living together in an apartment in Ramallah, went missing.

On April 1, a cleaner working for the city's municipality found a bag in a garbage bin that contained a laptop, mobile phones and the men’s identity cards.

A relative of one of the men told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “Before arresting them, the Palestinian security forces had raided their apartment in Ramallah and did not find anything unusual. The Palestinian security investigations confirmed that they were not detained by Israel and that they did not leave the West Bank. This raised more doubts and caused the public to become concerned about their disappearance.“