Editing 1949 Armistice Agreements (section)

=== With Syria ===
{{Main|Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission}}
Armistice talks with Syria started at [[Gesher B'not Yaacov]], on the [[River Jordan]], in April 1949,<ref>Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/mfadocuments/yearbook1/pages/israel-syria%20armistice%20agreement.aspx Israel–Syria Armistice Agreement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124044947/http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/MFADocuments/Yearbook1/Pages/Israel-Syria%20Armistice%20Agreement.aspx |date=2015-11-24 }}</ref> after the other armistice agreements had been concluded. The agreement with Syria was signed on 20 July 1949.<ref name="SyriaIsraelArmistice1949" />

Syria withdrew its forces from most of the territories it controlled west of the international border, which became [[demilitarized zone]]s. The territory retained by Syria that lay west of the 1923 Palestinian Mandate border and which had been allocated to the Jewish state under the UN partition plan comprised 66 square kilometers in the Jordan Valley.<ref>''[[The Missing Peace (book)|The Missing Peace – The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace]]'' (2004), by [[Dennis Ross]]. {{ISBN|978-0-374-52980-2}}. pp 584–585</ref> These territories were designated [[demilitarized zone]]s (DMZs) and remained under Syrian control. It was emphasised that the armistice line was "not to be interpreted as having any relation whatsoever to ultimate territorial arrangements." (Article V)