Palestinian negotiators have claimed leaked documents showing they were prepared to compromise over Jerusalem and refugees as "a pack of lies".
Al-Jazeera said the Palestinians offered to let Israel keep all but one of the Jewish enclaves it build in east Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Mideast war. About 200,000 Israelis live there now.
In return, according to the quoted documents, the Palestinians wanted Israeli land, including a section close to the West Bank-Israel line where many of Israel's minority Arab citizens live.
But chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, dismissed the leaks as "lies and half truths."
"We have not gone back on our position," he told al-Jazeera. "If we had given ground on the refugees and made such concessions, why hasn't Israel agreed to sign a peace accord?
"We don't have anything to hide," Mr Erakat added on Monday, insisting the revelations had been "taken out of context and contain lies".
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