Editing History of Israel (section)

====Armistice Agreements====
{{Main|1949 Armistice Agreements}}Israel signed [[1949 Armistice Agreements|armistices]] with Egypt (24 February), Lebanon (23 March), Jordan (3 April) and Syria (20 July). No actual peace agreements were signed. With [[1949 Armistice Agreements|permanent ceasefire]] coming into effect, Israel's new borders, later known as the [[Green Line (Israel)|Green Line]], were established. These borders were not recognized by the Arab states as international boundaries. Israel was in control of the [[Galilee]], [[Jezreel Valley]], [[West Jerusalem]], the [[Israeli coastal plain|coastal plain]] and the [[Negev]]. The Syrians remained in control of a strip of territory along the Sea of Galilee originally allocated to the Jewish state, the Lebanese occupied a tiny area at [[Rosh HaNikra, Israel|Rosh Hanikra]], and the Egyptians retained the Gaza strip and still had some forces surrounded inside Israeli territory. Jordanian forces remained in the [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|West Bank]], where the British had stationed them before the war. Jordan annexed the areas it occupied while Egypt kept [[Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt|Gaza as an occupied zone]].<ref>Green Line: the name given to the 1949 Armistice lines that constituted the de facto borders of pre-1967 Israel — [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/israel/il_glos.html "Glossary: Israel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120527003328/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/israel/il_glos.html|date=27 May 2012}}, ''[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]''</ref><ref>[https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d575 "Document 575"] ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume VI'' Office of the Historian, USA Department of State {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901015448/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d575 |date=1 September 2022 }}

FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1949, THE NEAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA, AND AFRICA, VOLUME VI</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Congress |first=World Jewish |title=World Jewish Congress |url=https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-week-in-jewish-history--israel-signs-armistice-agreement-with-syria-to-end-war-of-independence-7-2-2020 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=World Jewish Congress |language=EN |archive-date=24 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924200939/https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-week-in-jewish-history--israel-signs-armistice-agreement-with-syria-to-end-war-of-independence-7-2-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.il/en/pages/1949-1967-armistice-lines |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |title=Armistice Lines (1949-1967)|date=2021-11-07 |access-date=2025-05-17}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031164138/https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Maps/Pages/1949-1967%20Armistice%20Lines.aspx |date=31 October 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/israel-egypt-armistice-agreement|title=Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement, Foreign Ministry of Israel, VOLUMES 1-2: 1947-1974, 4. Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement, 24 February 1949|accessdate=31 July 2024|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412083209/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israels+Foreign+Relations+since+1947/1947-1974/Israel-Egypt+Armistice+Agreement.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Cia-is-map2.png|thumb|upright|[[Green Line (Israel)|1949 Green Line]]]]

Following the ceasefire declaration, Britain released over 2,000 Jewish detainees it was still holding in Cyprus and recognized the state of Israel. On 11 May 1949, Israel was [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273|admitted]] as a member of the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_un_mem_dat-government-un-membership-date|title=Countries Compared by Government > UN membership date. International Statistics |website=www.nationmaster.com |access-date=11 November 2007|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116020421/http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_un_mem_dat-government-un-membership-date|url-status=live}}</ref> Out of an Israeli population of 650,000, some 6,000 men and women were killed in the fighting, including 4,000 soldiers in the IDF (approximately 1% of the Jewish population). According to United Nations figures, 726,000 Palestinians [[1948 Palestinian exodus|had fled or were expelled]] by the Israelis between 1947 and 1949.{{sfn|Morris|2004|p=604}}