Palestinian security services have been destroying secret files, fearing
Israeli raids on their offices as the Jewish state weighs annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, sources in such organs say.
"We have been ordered to destroy confidential documents in our possession and we have obeyed this order," a Palestinian security source told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying that the instructions came from "high up".
During the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada, which erupted in the early 2000s and included waves of suicide bombings, Israeli security forces repeatedly stormed Palestinian security services' offices and removed confidential documents.