Full Description:
The demarcation line set out in the Armistice Agreements following the war. It separated the State of Israel from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. For decades, it served as the de facto border, though it was never intended to be a permanent political boundary. The Green Line (named for the ink used on the map) represents the ceasefire positions of the opposing armies. It left Israel with significantly more territory than was originally proposed by the UN partition plan, while the remaining Palestinian territories fell under Jordanian and Egyptian administration.

Critical Perspective:
The existence of the Green Line highlights the absence of a peace treaty. It created a physical and psychological partition of the land that divided families and severed economic ties. In the decades following the subsequent occupation of the West Bank, the line has been increasingly erased by settlement construction, rendering the prospect of a “two-state solution” based on these borders geopolitically impossible.