Israel has been exercising strong diplomatic pressures on the Palestinian Authority in order to prevent it from executing 50 Palestinians, convicted of collaborating with the Israeli security.

Also, the American government represented by Dan Kustzer, the American ambassador to is among the high officials who appealed to P.A officials to stop the executions.
 
The Israeli government said that it will halt the process of freeing Palestinian detainees if the P.A does not halt the execution.
 
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, abu Mazin, declared three months ago that he had authorized the execution of some 50 collaborators after they were convicted of collaborating with the Israeli security, and army. 
 
Head of the Palestinian military courts, Saeb al-Kidwa, said that the execution of first 15 collaborators, would take place in the coming weeks.