More than 16,000 documents on secret talks between 2000 and 2010 were released by the Guardian newspaper and Al-Jazeera TV.

Leaked controversial documents on allegedly secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), shows that Palestinian negotiators agreed to concede almost all of the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to Israel.

More than 16,000 documents on secret talks between 2000 and 2010 were released by the Guardian newspaper and Al-Jazeera TV.
The documents covered sensitive issues like the right of return of Palestinian refugees, the close cooperation between Israel and Palestinian Authority Security forces, land swaps in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and of Israeli warnings to the PA of the imminent invasion of the Gaza Strip in 2008-09.

The documents said that the unprecedented proposal was just one of a string of concessions offered by the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The report, released on Al-Jazeera on Sunday, said it has 16,076 confidential records of meetings, emails and communications between the Palestinian Authority, Israeli and US leaders.

According to the report, PA leaders were privately tipped off about Israel's 2008-9 war in Gaza, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands of others.

The documents also maintain that Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat proposed that al-Quds' Old City be divided, but he immediately denied he had made the offer.
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Erakat condemned Al-Jazeera, saying the station “has declared war on the Palestinians.”

“This station serves the interests of the enemies of the Palestinians,” Erakat said, adding that the PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently in Cairo, would decide on the PA’s response to the exposure of the documents in the coming hours.

Other documents showed that in May 2008, the PA negotiator at the time, Ahmed Qureia, had proposed that Israel annex all illegal settlements in East al-Quds except Har Homa (Jabal Abu Ghneim), in a bid to reach a final deal.

"This is the first time in history that we make such a proposition," he reportedly said, pointing out that this was a bigger concession than made at Camp David talks in 2000.

Meanwhile, other files show how the PA allegedly agreed to allow only 10,000 Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and a total of 100,000 over a ten-year period.

Since 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East al-Quds and has settled close to 500,000 Jews in more than 100 illegal settlements.