Editing 1948 Arab–Israeli War (section)

===Second truce: 18 July – 15 October 1948===
{{Further|Folke Bernadotte}}
At 19:00 on 18 July, the second truce of the conflict went into effect after intense diplomatic efforts by the UN.

On 16 September, Count [[Folke Bernadotte]] proposed a new partition for Palestine in which the [[Negev]] would be divided between Jordan and Egypt, and Jordan would annexe [[Lod|Lydda]] and [[Ramla]]. There would be a Jewish state in the whole of [[Galilee]], with the frontier running from Faluja northeast towards Ramla and Lydda. [[Jerusalem]] would be internationalised, with municipal autonomy for the city's Jewish and Arab inhabitants, the [[Port of Haifa]] would be a free port, and [[Ben Gurion International Airport|Lydda Airport]] would be a free airport. All [[Palestinian refugee]]s would be granted the [[right of return]], and those who chose not to return would be compensated for lost property. The UN would control and regulate Jewish immigration.<ref>{{harvnb|Karsh|2002|p=76}}</ref>

The plan was once again rejected by both sides. On the next day, 17 September, Bernadotte was [[Folke Bernadotte#Assassination|assassinated]] in Jerusalem by the militant Zionist group [[Lehi (group)|Lehi]]. A four-man team ambushed Bernadotte's motorcade in Jerusalem, killing him and a French UN observer sitting next to him. Lehi saw Bernadotte as a British and Arab puppet, and thus a serious threat to the emerging State of Israel, and feared that the provisional Israeli government would accept the plan, which it considered disastrous. Unbeknownst to Lehi, the government had already decided to reject it and resume combat in a month. Bernadotte's deputy, American [[Ralph Bunche]], replaced him.<ref>
*A. Ilan, ''Bernadotte in Palestine'', 1948 (Macmillan, 1989) p. 194
*[[J. Bowyer Bell]], Assassination in International Politics, ''International Studies Quarterly'', vol. 16, March 1972, pp. 59–82.
*{{cite news|first=Clyde|last=Haberman|author-link=Clyde Haberman|title=Terrorism Can Be Just Another Point of View|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/books/books-of-the-times-terrorism-can-be-just-another-point-of-view.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|date=22 February 1995|access-date=28 December 2008|quote=Mr. Shamir, nearly 80, still speaks elliptically about the Bernadotte assassination. Years later, when Ben-Gurion moved to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, Sdeh Bokker, one of his closest friends there was Yehoshua Cohen, who had been one of the assassins.|archive-date=20 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620083956/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/books/books-of-the-times-terrorism-can-be-just-another-point-of-view.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}} Review of Kati Marton's biography.
*{{cite news|first=Alan|last=Cowell|author-link=Alan Cowell|title=The Middle East Talks: Reporter's Notebook; Syria Offers Old Photo To Fill an Empty Chair|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/02/world/middle-east-talks-reporter-s-notebook-syria-offers-old-photo-fill-empty-chair.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|date=2 November 1991|access-date=28 December 2008|quote=In recent years, several members of the group known by the British as the Stern Gang have acknowledged responsibility for the killing. Mr. Shamir, who was a member of the Stern Gang, has declined to discuss the killing, and one of his spokesman has said he had no role in it.|archive-date=27 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327040650/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/02/world/middle-east-talks-reporter-s-notebook-syria-offers-old-photo-fill-empty-chair.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 22 September 1948, the [[Provisional State Council]] of Israel passed the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordnance, 5708–1948. The law officially added to Israel's size by annexing all land it had captured since the war began. It also declared that from then on, any part of Palestine captured by the Israeli army would automatically become part of Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm |title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948) |publisher=Israellawresourcecenter.org |access-date=18 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm |archive-date=24 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>