1949 Armistice Agreements
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The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and Syria. They formally ended the hostilities of the 1948 Palestine War and also demarcated the Green Line, w
Palestine Military Situation, April 6, 1949. Truman Papers
The Israeli delegation to the 1949 Armistice Agreements talks. Left to right: Commanders Yehoshafat Harkabi, Aryeh Simon, Yigael Yadin, and Yitzhak Rabin (1949)
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Jordan split Jerusalem into "West Jerusalem" under Israeli sovereignty, "East Jerusalem" under Jordanian sovereignty, along with a buffer no man's land region. The blue "West Jerusalem" exclave was the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University.
1948 Arab–Israeli War
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The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war o
1949 Armistice Agreements
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Raising the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash
Israeli soldier and Palestinian prisoners in Ramle 1948
Israeli soldiers in battle with the Arab village of Sassa