Palestine papers: Editor's note
The background to how the Guardian came to publish the documents revealing details of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
The 1,600 or so documents in the Palestine papers were obtained by al-Jazeera and shared in advance of publication with the Guardian in an effort to ensure the wider availability of their content.
The Guardian has authenticated the bulk of the papers independently, but we have not sought or been given access to the sources of the documents.Al-Jazeera, who are publishing the papers in full on their website, aljazeera.net, has redacted minimal parts of the papers in order to protect their sources' identity.
As part of the agreement we are publishing up to eight documents a day in full on guardian.co.uk.In the course of working with the documents over several weeks, the Guardian has formed its own judgments about specific stories and retained full editorial control of its coverage.
Co-operation between us and al-Jazeera has been restricted to discussions of the stories and agreeing dates on which we would release the information contained in specific documents.
