The political stalemate between Israel and Palestine continues and Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have shown zero progress since 2014. Nevertheless, the security and economic cooperation between the two sides seems to always stay the course. This is particularly intriguing since such sectors often depend on political relations, but they are somehow unrelated in this case.

On Sept. 2, Israel’s News1 reported that “technical projects carried out by Israeli and Palestinian companies, the last of which is a project to establish a large data center in Ramallah at a cost of $50 million, was implemented by the Israeli branch of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the American multinational information technology enterprise.”

Maen Melhem, general manager of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company (Paltel), announced Aug. 16 that the data center project is the largest Palestinian investment in the Palestinian telecommunications sector. It will be established under the supervision of local and international experts and engineers, specialized in setting up international data centers, in partnership with major international companies, he said — without mentioning Israeli companies.

The Data Center aims to improve the quality of the services provided to the business sector by companies, institutions and banks, and to contribute to developing the quality of the services provided to its IT-based customers. Among the services offered by the center is a specialized team working around the clock to protect servers from any attacks or breaches and to handle virtual servers and cloud computing, data storage space and other services offered in data centers around the world.