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The Palestinian negotiators indicated they wanted full Palestinian sovereignty over the entire [[West Bank]] and the [[Gaza Strip]], although they would consider a one-to-one land swap with Israel. They maintained that [[Resolution 242]] calls for full Israeli withdrawal from these territories, which were captured in the [[Six-Day War]], as part of a final peace settlement, although Israel disputes this interpretation of Resolution 242. In the 1993 [[Oslo Accords]] the Palestinian negotiators accepted the [[Green Line (Israel)|Green Line]] borders for the West Bank but the Israelis rejected this proposal. They wanted to annex the numerous settlement blocks on the Palestinian side of the Green Line, and were concerned that a complete return to the 1967 borders was dangerous to Israel's security.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}
Barak offered to form a [[Palestinian State]] initially on 73% of the West Bank (that is, 27% less than the Green Line borders) and 100% of the Gaza Strip. In 10–25 years, the Palestinian state would expand to a maximum of 90–9192%<ref>[[Efraim Karsh|Karsh, Efraim]]. ''Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest''. New York: Grove Press, 2003. p. 168</ref> of the West Bank (94% excluding greater Jerusalem).<ref name=rossmap>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/rossmap2.html "Actual Proposal Offered At Camp David"]. Map from Dennis Ross book, ''The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.'' NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.mideastweb.org/campdavid2.htm Camp David Proposals for Final Palestine-Israel Peace Settlement<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.mideastweb.org/campdavid%20orient.htm Camp David 2 Maps According to Orient House<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> As a result, Israel would have withdrawn from 63 [[Israeli settlement|settlements]].<ref>Shyovitz, David. [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/cd2000art.html "Camp David 2000."] ''[[Jewish Virtual Library]]''.</ref> Israel would only keep the settlements with large populations. All others would be dismantled, with the exception of [[Kiryat Arba]] (adjacent to the holy city of [[Hebron]]), which would be an Israeli [[enclave]] inside the Palestinian state, and would be linked to Israel by a bypass road. The West Bank would be split in the middle by an Israeli-controlled road from Jerusalem to the [[Dead Sea]], with free passage for Palestinians, although Israel reserved the right to close the road to passage in case of emergency. In return, Israel would allow the Palestinians to use a highway in the Negev to connect the West Bank with Gaza. In the Israeli proposal, the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be linked by an elevated highway and an elevated railroad running through the [[Negev]], ensuring safe and free passage for Palestinians. This highway would be under the sovereignty of Israel, and Israel reserved the right to close the highway to passage in case of emergency.<ref name="Slate Article">{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Robert|title=Was Arafat the Problem?|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_earthling/2002/04/wasarafat_the_problem.single.html|accessdate=27 December 2011|newspaper=Slate|date=18 April 2002}}</ref>
However, Israel would retain around 9% of Palestinian lands in exchange for 1% of Israeli land. The land that would be conceded included symbolic and cultural territories such as the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]], whereas the Israeli land conceded was unspecified. Additional to territorial concessions, Palestinian airspace would be controlled by Israel under Barak's offer.<ref name="Slate Article"/>
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