The Green Line, or 1949 Armistice border, is the

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set out in the

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and those of its neighbors (

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, and

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) after the

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. It served as the '' de facto'' borders of the State of Israel from 1949 until the

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in 1967, and continues to represent Israel's internationally recognized borders with the two

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: the

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and the

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. The Green Line was intended as a demarcation line rather than a permanent border. The 1949 Armistice Agreements were clear (at Arab insistence) that they were not creating permanent borders. The Egyptian–Israeli agreement, for example, stated that "the Armistice Demarcation Line is not to be construed in any sense as a political or territorial boundary, and is delineated without prejudice to rights, claims and positions of either Party to the Armistice as regards ultimate settlement of the Palestine question."Egypt Israel
Armistice Agreement UN Doc S/1264/Corr.1 23 February 1949 Similar provisions are contained in the Armistice Agreements with Jordan and Syria. The Agreement with Lebanon contained no such provisions, and was treated as the international border between Israel and Lebanon, stipulating only that forces would be withdrawn to the Israel–Lebanon border. The Green Line is often referred to as the "pre-1967 borders" or the "1967 borders" by many international bodies and national leaders, including former United States president

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, Palestinian president

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, the

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(UN) in informal texts, and in the text of

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resolutions. The name comes from the green ink used to draw the line on the map during armistice talks. After the Six-Day War, the territories captured by Israel beyond the Green Line came to be designated as

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, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the

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. These territories are often referred to as

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. The

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, which was also captured at that time, has since been returned to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty.

History

The Green Line refers to the

s, rather than permanent borders, between

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i forces and those of its neighbors. All movement across the demarcation lines was banned and monitored by the

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. Most commonly, the term was applied to the boundary between

-controlled

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and the

and Israel. The drawing of the Green Line superseded entirely the partition lines proposed and voted on by the United Nations in the Partition Plan of 1947 and which Israel had accepted in the

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. The Palestinian and Arab leaders had repeatedly rejected any permanent partition of

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. In 1967, after Israel seized all the territories, other than the

Emirate of Transjordan The Emirate of Transjordan (), officially the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921,occupied territories, and they were not incorporated into Israeli political and civilian administrative systems. The territories beyond the Green Line were administered by the Israeli military or later also by the

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. Citizenship by residence, for example, was determined with reference to the Green Line, as well as a person's refugee status. The extension of the municipal boundary of Jerusalem in 1980 was an exception to this position. Although Jerusalem was a part of territory beyond the Green Line that was ruled by Jordan until 1967, Israel declared Jerusalem "complete and united" as the capital of Israel according to the 1980

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. This claim has not been recognised by any country or by the

(UN)

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. A notional Green Line continues to divide Jerusalem at the boundary of

. The Golan Heights are another exception, having been informally incorporated by Israel with the 1981 Golan Heights Law. The UN Security Council declared this to be null and without any international legal effect.

Impact

The sections of the Green Line that delineate the boundaries between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza run through heavily populated regions. The Line corresponds to the military front of the 1948 War, and while the considerations dictating its placement were primarily military, it soon became clear that in many places it divided towns and villages, and separated farmers from their fields. Consequently, the Green Line underwent various slight adjustments, and special arrangements were made for limited movement in certain areas.Yossi Alpher, et al.
"The green line"
''Palestinian–Israeli crossfire'', Edition 8, February 24, 2003

was divided in half, into

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and

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. The village of Barta'a, partially due to errors on the map, was left with one third of its area on the Israeli side and two thirds outside of it. According to

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, in March 1949 as the Iraqi forces withdrew and handed over their positions to the Jordanian legion, Israel carried out Operation ''Shin-Tav-Shin'' which allowed Israel to renegotiate the ceasefire line in the

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area of the northern West Bank in a secret agreement that was incorporated into the General Armistice Agreement. The Green Line was redrawn in blue ink on the southern map to give the impression that a movement in the green line had been made.

Jewish population

During the war in 1947–48, Jews residing east of what subsequently became the Line, including the

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of the Old City, were taken prisoner by the Jordanians. All but a few of the

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defenders were massacred. The prisoners were returned to Israel after the war. On July 8, 1948, the Jewish inhabitants of Kfar Darom and

Naharayim Naharayim ( literally "Two rivers"), historically the Jisr Majami area ( literally "Meeting bridge" area), is the area where the Yarmouk River flows into the Jordan River. It was the site of the "First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House", con ...

were evacuated by Israel due to military pressure by Egypt and Jordan. Israel also withdrew from villages in the Lebanese Upper

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, whereas Syria withdrew from Mishmar HaYarden. Since Israel's victory in the

, Israel has established settlements south and east of the Line. These have been strongly criticised by other nations. Many Israelis believe that the settlements are important to Israel's security and also support the settlements ideologically. In contrast, other Israelis believe the settlements are an economic burden and a barrier to peace. From August to September 2005, Israel implemented a unilateral disengagement plan in which the entire Jewish population of the

was evacuated. In 2006,

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proposed a convergence plan that called for Israel to disengage, unilaterally, if necessary, from much of the West Bank (east of the line).

Arab population

The majority of Palestinian Arabs on the Israeli side of the Line fled or were expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (around 720,000). Those who remained became Israeli citizens and now comprise approximately 20 per cent of Israel's total citizenry. The

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– Baqa al-Gharbiyye– Tira area, known as the "

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," was originally designated to fall under

ian jurisdiction, but Israel insisted on having it within its side of the Green Line side due to military and strategic reasons. To achieve this, a territorial swap was negotiated, ceding to Jordan the Israeli territory in the southern hills of

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in exchange for the Triangle villages in

. In the Six-Day War, Israel occupied territories beyond the Green Line that were inhabited by over a million Palestinian Arabs, including refugees from the 1947–1949 war. The Green Line remained the administrative border between these territories (with the exception of Jerusalem) and the areas on the Israeli side of the Green Line. In 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and gave its Arab inhabitants

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status. They were also entitled to apply for Israeli citizenship. Domestically, Israel attempted to emphasize the status of East Jerusalem as part of Israel by its 1980 Jerusalem Law.

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deemed the law null and void, and this status has not been recognised by any other nation. In 1981, the

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enacted the Golan Heights Law, ostensibly as a reaction to Syrian provocations. This extended the Israeli

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to the Golan Heights. (It was also thought to have been motivated by the recent US AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia.) This act was widely considered an informal annexation. It was criticized by the United States as a violation of the Camp David Accords and condemned by the UN Security Council in Resolution 497.

Official maps

In October and November 1967, the Israeli security cabinet passed resolutions to remove the Green Line from official maps. The decision was classified "top secret" and a media blackout was imposed. Printing of the new maps was delayed until a UN General Assembly meeting finished. As a consequence of the decision, the Survey of Israel's official maps began to omit the Green Line and the armistice line with Egypt, while the armistice lines with Jordan and Lebanon were relabeled as ceasefire lines. In 2022, the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality sent maps to its schools that indicated the Green Line contrary to usual practice. The mayor explained the decision as "It's important to us that students know Israel's sovereign borders and the complex reality in areas where Jewish citizens of Israel and Arabs under the Palestinian Authority's control live side by side". However, the Education Ministry told the municipality that the maps must not be used "even as a poster on the wall".

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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law professor Stephen M. Schwebel responded that "...modifications of the 1949 armistice lines among those States within former Palestinian territory are lawful (if not necessarily desirable), whether those modifications are...'insubstantial alterations required for mutual security' or more substantial alterations—such as recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem." In a footnote, he wrote: "It should be added that the armistice agreements of 1949 expressly preserved the territorial claims of all parties and did not purport to establish definitive boundaries between them."; reprinted in The question of whether, or to what extent, Israel should withdraw its population and forces to its side of the Green Line remains a crucial issue in some discussions surrounding the

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. There is a near-unanimous international consensus that Israel should withdraw to its side of the line. This has been expressed in the yearly

vote on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine. Although disputed by Israel, United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (UNSC 242) has declared the interpretation of international law regarding Palestinian Territory. The Palestinians were not party to the drawing of the Green Line and they rejected UNSC 242, saying that it did not call for an independent Palestinian state, and referred to them as refugees. Since 1976, most elements in the

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have accepted the pre-June 1967 line as a basis for the establishment of a Palestinian state. In the early 1980s, American intellectual

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argued that Israeli claims that the Palestinian leadership rejected the international consensus calling for a Palestinian state, with borders along the Green Line, were not consistent with the documented record. In 2008, ''Al Jazeera'' and ''Haaretz'' both reported that elements in the Palestinian leadership, including

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, have called for a two-state settlement based on the pre-June 1967 borders (the Green Line). While initially seeking a state in all of former

, Hamas began acquiescing to 1967 borders in the agreements it signed with Fatah in

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.: "Indeed, since 2006, Hamas has unceasingly highlighted its acceptance of the 1967 borders, as well as accords signed by the PLO and Israel. This position has been an integral part of reconciliation agreements between Hamas and Fatah since 2005: the Cairo Agreement in 2005, the Prisoners' Document in 2006, the Mecca Agreement in 2007 and finally the Cairo and Doha Agreements in 2011 and 2012."*: " Prisoners' Document"enshrined many issues that had already been settled, including statehood on the 1967 borders; UN Resolution 194 for the right of return; and the right to resist within the occupied territories...This agreement was in essence a key text that offered a platform for unity between Hamas and Fatah within internationally defined principles animating the Palestinian struggle." *: "Khaled Meshal, as chief of Hamas's Political Bureau in Damascus, as well as Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh similarly confirmed the organization's willingness to accept the June 4, 1967, borders and a two-state solution should Israel withdraw from the occupied territories, a reality reaffirmed in the 2006 Palestinian Prisoners' Document, in which most major Palestinian factions had reached a consensus on a two-state solution, that is, a Palestinian state within 1967 borders including East Jerusalem and the refugee right of return.": "The Cairo Declaration formalized what Hamas's military disposition throughout the Second Intifada had alluded to: that the movement's immediate political goals were informed by the desire to create a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders." In 2017, Hamas released a new charter that supported a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders without recognizing Israel.Sources that believe that Hamas' 2017 charter accepted the 1967 borders: * * * * * * Hamas's repeated offers of a

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(for a period of 10–100 years) based on the 1967 borders are seen by many as being consistent with a

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,* * *: "Hamas's finance minister in Gaza stated that 'a long-term ceasefire as understood by Hamas and a two-state settlement are the same. It's just a question of vocabulary.'" while others state that Hamas retains the long-term objective of establishing one state in former

. The majority of the Israeli public opposes reverting to pre-1967 borders. A 2011 study found that, because of security concerns, 77 per cent of Israelis oppose returning to pre-1967 lines, even if it would lead to peace between Israel and neighboring Arab states. The

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constructed in the early 21st century is, in parts, kilometres away from the Green Line and most lies within Palestinian territory. Barbed wire fence separating PA territory from Israel

Barbed wire fence separating PA territory from Israel

Physical and social perceptions of the Green Line

According to

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geographer Ilan Salomon, the Green Line can be discerned from space via satellite; it is marked by pine forests planted by the

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to demarcate Israeli territory. Salomon and Larissa Fleishman conducted a 2006 study regarding Israeli students' knowledge of the location of the Green Line, and they found that not much more than one third could identify its placement. They learned that "students who identify with left-leaning parties are more familiar with the location of the

and the

, can sketch them more accurately and are also more aware of the nature of borders."Eldar, Akiva
"Putting back the Green Line – once we find it"
Haaretz, December 8, 2006

Works

* '' At the Green Line''

References

Sources

* * * *

External links

Foundation for Middle East Peace – Maps

{{Egypt–Israel relations 1948 Arab–Israeli War Egypt–Israel border Israel–Jordan border Israel–Lebanon border Israel–Syria border Borders of the West Bank

History

Impact

Jewish population

Arab population

Official maps

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Physical and social perceptions of the Green Line

Works

See also

References

Sources

Further reading

External links