RAMALLAH, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei on Thursday denied earlier Israeli media reports talking about a progress in the political negotiations between the two sides.

    Qurei told reporters in Ramallah that such reports on achieving a progress in the talks are "just untrue and inaccurate media infiltrations. It is just the dust of the inter-factional battle in Israel."

    Earlier, Israeli media reports said that a progress has been recently achieved between the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, adding that they had agreed on several permanent status issues.

    In November 2007, Israel and the Palestinian National Authority agreed in Annapolis, the United States, to form two teams to negotiate the six permanent status issues: Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugees, the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, water, borders of the future Palestinian state and security.

    Qurei has welcomed what he described as the international community's rejection of the Israeli policy "based on settlements' expansion and building the separation wall which writhes as a snake into the body of the West Bank."

    "The supportive international community's position is a clear message sent to Israel that the Palestinian demands are legal," said Qurei, who called on Israel to stop settlements expansion and the daily incursions into the West Bank.