Palestinian officials denied on Sunday that they have heard of a US proposal to map the boundaries between Israel and the West Bank in a bid to stop Jewish settlement on the Palestinian territory.

"We were not told about these offers and ideas by the Americans at all," Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), told Xinhua.

According to Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper, the US administration of President Barack Obama plans to urge Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to start immediate talks to delimit the West Bank border to prevent further expansion of Israeli settlements.

Meanwhile, Nemer Hammad, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said "these reports reflect an Israeli journalist's fiction."

The PNA wants Israel to freeze ongoing settlement activities and to evacuate all the blocs that were built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- the two territories which, alongside the Gaza Strip, would be part of a future Palestinian statehood.

Ha'aretz said the upcoming US proposal was fueled by Israel's decision not to stop the so-called natural growth of the settlements despite pressing appeals by the new American government.

George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, will come to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week to discuss chances of pushing peace talks forward.

(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2009)