A Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus handed over two plain-clothes officers to the Israeli side after they infiltrated into Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
There is still no information if they were on a mission in Nablus to kidnap Palestinians and why they entered the area without prior coordination with the PA liaison office.
A local source reported that a patrol vehicle boarded by PA national security officers intercepted a car after suspecting it in Rafidia neighborhood west of the city and found two men carrying pistols inside it.
Soon later the source added the two armed men were found to be Israeli undercover officers and then taken to a security office in al-Junaid prison where contacts were seemingly made with the Israeli side to bring them back.
Afterwards Israeli soldiers aboard military vehicles stormed Rafidia neighborhood picked up the two officers and drove back.
Eyewitnesses said that local young men hurled stones at the Israeli military vehicles as they were entering the neighborhood.
It was not the first time the PA security apparatuses handed over Jewish settlers or soldiers after they entered Palestinian areas in the West Bank.
The PA considers this part of its security collaboration with the Israelis while the Palestinians in the West Bank see it as an antinational behavior.
