Jerusalem
Palestinian negotiators offered to give up large areas of East Jerusalem as Israel's negotiations in 2008, Al-Jazeera said, suggesting that Palestinian leaders have been reluctant to offer concessions to the private sector and much higher than had previously stated publicly.
Monday ', the former Israeli government official said the agreement almost reached in negotiations between the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the end of 2006 to September 2008.
"After dozens of meetings between Olmert and (Abbas) was not a proposal that has come to this job ... I was on all issues that we call the fundamental issues", Yanki Galanti, a former spokesman for Olmert said in an interview Monday with Israeli Army Radio.
The central issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is seen as the status of Jerusalem, borders and refugees.
The report released Sunday by Al-Jazeera was founded in a treasure trove of almost 1,700 internal documents from the network said it had obtained. The network did not reveal the source of the material, said no documents were in his possession.
The documents, some of which were published on the website of the network, a new light on the details of Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1999 until last year. He could not immediately be verified by CNN.
The documents of the meetings of Al-Jazeera outline the relationship between Israelis, Palestinians and representatives of the United States in which the Palestinian negotiators in 2008 offered to waive claims in almost all settlements built in East Jerusalem.
The offer was firmly rejected by Israel, according to documents sent.
Israel captured the eastern half of the city after the war with its Arab neighbors in 1967 and considers Jerusalem its sovereign capital. This is a claim rejected by the international community considers the construction by Israel in East Jerusalem as illegal. The Palestinians want the eastern part of the city as capital of their future state.
The disclosure of documents could be politically damaging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Authority. Government officials based in Ramallah, has always condemned the Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the information that Palestinian officials were willing to make deals to allow the construction by Israel of continuing may be used by its detractors.
Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory in Gaza, condemned the Palestinian Authority, the team says it has "no credibility to negotiate, because it offered significant concessions." The rules of the Authority Palestinian West Bank.
"All the doubts and all the concerns of the Palestinian people and resistance is true," Osama Hamdan, head of foreign relations of Hamas, said Monday in an interview with CNN from Lebanon. "These dealers have no credibility, and they are not authorized to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians because of the division, because there is no unified Palestinian institutions, and because they are not Short power to negotiate with the Israelis. "
Sami Abu Zhur, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said the disclosure of internal documents of the East Jerusalem Palestinian concessions, which illustrates the cooperation between the PA and Israel. He accused the Abbas government of working with Israel to end the notion of a Palestinian state.
Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, is branded a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
In a leaked document from 2010, the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted as telling a U.S. State Department, "the Israelis want a two-state solution, but do not trust. They want more than you think sometimes more than the Palestinians. What in this document (which) gives the largest (Jerusalem) in Jewish history ... What I can do? "
In addition to details of the concessions made on the issue of Jerusalem, Al-Jazeera reported that Palestinian officials have also offered positions agreement on sensitive issues such as the right of return of Palestinian refugees and control of Temple Mount, which houses Al Aqsa Mosque, one of the largest sites of Islam.
Wafa news agency quoted Palestinian Authority President Abbas told newspaper editors in Cairo on Sunday that he did not know where al-Jazeera has obtained its information and that there was nothing new to report.
U.S. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said Sunday night the United States will examine the alleged escape of Al-Jazeera.
"The U.S. government is reviewing the documents released by suspected Palestinian Al-Jazeera. We can not vouch for their veracity," he twitted.