copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-17): The political geography of Israel and the Palestinian territories has been changing for more than a century. British imperial control, wars, Jewish settlements and Israeli occupation have greatly shrunk the Palestinian people’s land area, while Israel has expanded its footprint. Both Palestinians and Israelis see the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as their own, and Christians, Jews and Muslims all consider parts of the land sacred. [...] The area was then divided into three parts. The 1949 armistice line, or "Green Line," made up the boundaries of Israel, the West Bank (the area west of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. Until 1967, Egypt retained control of Gaza and Jordan retained control of the West Bank. [...] Today more than half a million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank on land once envisioned by the leaders at the Oslo talks as part of a future Palestinian state. Israel maintains full control over 60 percent of the area, with some roads that only Israelis can use and checkpoints that restrict the movements of Palestinians.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-07-08): In 2002, Israel started constructing the wall, slicing through Palestinian communities, agricultural fields, and farmland at the height of the second Intifada. [...] Palestinians, however, have decried it as an Israeli mechanism to annex Palestinian territory as it is built deep within the West Bank and not along the 1967 Green Line, the generally recognised boundary between Israel and the West Bank. [...] The vote called on UN member states "not to recognise the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem", and "not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such construction".
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-01): Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Since the 1967 War, the Green Line has denoted, according to most international opinion and United Nations resolutions, the boundary between territory recognized as part of the legitimate, sovereign State of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For a map that marks the Green Line, see [...] Israeli and Palestinian perspectives on the Green Line in modern-day political dealings, see "
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-01-27): They live beyond the internationally recognised borders of their state, on Palestinian land that Israel occupied in 1967, comprising East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-01-01): The Green Line is a term that emerged in the wake of Israel’s establishment in 1948, whose proper name is the 1949 Armistice Line. It refers to the border separating pre-1967 Israel from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and constitutes an internationally recognised border. However, it is important to note that Israel has never specified the boundaries of its own state.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-08-10): Yet as the United States focuses elsewhere, the reality on the ground is changing. For Palestinians and Israelis alike, the Green Line—the 1949 armistice border that many view as the basis for a future two-state solution—has all but disappeared. For over a decade, under both former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the past year’s "government of change," Israel has supercharged its de facto annexation of the West Bank, further entrenching a one-state reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This has recently prompted leading Israeli and international human rights organizations, from B’Tselem to Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, to accept what Palestinians have long said: that the Israeli regime is one of apartheid in every corner of the land under its control: from the river to the sea, including the Gaza Strip, which Israel still controls through its siege policies and its grip on the Gazan civilian register, water and electricity infustrcutrue, currency and more. It is this regime and the war crimes it carries out that uninterested American citizens are continuing to fund, all while their government sanctions Russia for similar crimes in Ukraine.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-10-06): I have been especially sensitive to movement across the Green Line that divides the West Bank and Israel as a ’48 Palestinian (albeit one born and living in the United States) with strong connections on either side of the Green Line. In many hours logged on the road, I’ve learned that driving is a site of embodied, everyday politics — a kind that is too often overlooked in favor of official or formal political statements and stances. The very nomenclature of ’48 Palestinians and ’67 Palestinians shows how the Nakba is at the root of Palestinian fragmentation, and the road network is a prime instrument of their separation from each other. [...] For West Bank Palestinians, traversing the Green Line is much more fraught. In the summer of 2013, Jalila, a ’48 Palestinian living in the West Bank, made several journeys across the Green Line with ’67 Palestinians. All of these trips were illegal. In future months, as the political situation deteriorated, absolutely no one of this group was willing to continue making these trips. Yet, for one summer, this was a mode of experimentation that increased knowledge of the road network.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): The area originally separating Israel from Jordan is typically described as the "1967 or pre-1967 border." The frontier was never recognized as the border of Israel, however, and is actually the armistice line agreed to by Jordan and Israel in 1949. It is often referred to as the "Green Line" because that is the color of the pen used to draw the ceasefire line between Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan following the 1967 War. Today, it is used to demarcate Israel from the disputed territories of East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). [...] Israel remains committed to trading land for peace, and never annexed the West Bank or Gaza Strip because it expected to return part of these territories in negotiations. When the Palestinians finally declared that they would recognize Israel and renounce terrorism, Israel agreed to begin to withdraw. Plans to withdraw from additional territory were scuttled by Palestinian terrorism and their violation of the Oslo agreements. [...] Green Line Ynhockey at the English-language Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Wikimedia.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Palestine (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2004-07-09): The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion today that Israel's building of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal and said construction must stop immediately and Israel should make reparations for any damage caused. [...] Observing that 80 per cent of Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory now live between the barrier and the so-called Green Line marking the 1949 boundary of Israel, the Court said the structure's route could "prejudge the future frontier between Israel and Palestine." [...] The judges noted that, combined with the Israeli settlements, which have been deplored by the Security Council, the barrier's construction alters the demographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territory and impedes the Palestinians' right to self-determination.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-03): The Green Line or 1949 Armistice border[1] is the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It served as the de facto borders of the State of Israel from 1949 until the Six-Day War in 1967, and continues to represent Israel’s internationally recognized borders with the two Palestinian territories: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.[2][3] [...] The Green Line is often referred to as the "pre-1967 borders" or the "1967 borders" by many international bodies and national leaders, including former United States president Barack Obama,[6] Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas,[7] the United Nations (UN) in informal texts,[8] and in the text of UN General Assembly resolutions.[9] The name comes from the green ink used to draw the line on the map during armistice talks.[10] After the Six-Day War, the territories captured by Israel beyond the Green Line came to be designated as East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights. These territories are often referred to as Israeli-occupied territories. The Sinai Peninsula, which was also captured at that time, has since been returned to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-08-18): Following the rise of Netanyahu’s Likud party in 1977, Housing Minister David Levy removed the Green Line from official Israel maps. The Knesset rejected an effort in 2007 by then-Education Minister Yuli Tamir to return the Line to Israeli textbooks, and today, the State Department reports that over three-quarters of Israeli maps lack any distinction between Israeli and Palestinian territory. [...] While J Street, the Reform Movement and others are leading an effort to put the Green Line on American Jewish maps, the vast majority of maps used by Jewish institutions–including synagogues, Hebrew schools and Jewish federations– have no Green Line or distinction between Israel and occupied territory. This is just one example of the ways in which the Green Line is being erased from the Jewish communal consciousness–contributing to the denial of legitimate Palestinian claims to the land and undermining the prospects for a two-state resolution. [...] In one page… what is the Green Line and why does it matter to Israel? Here are some key questions, answers and additional references.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-04-13): The Green line is a Red Line: The 1967 Border and the Two-State [...] The June 4, 1967 border, also known as green line, is the internationally recognized border between the occupied Palestinian territory (i.e. West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip) and the State of Israel. The occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) represents an area equivalent to 22 percent of historic Palestine. The boundaries of the oPt were established through the signing of armistice agreements between Egypt and Jordan on the one hand, and Israel, on the other, following the war of 1948, and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel on 78 percent of historic Palestine. [...] The June 4, 1967 borders represent the internationally recognized boundary between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. It also represents the historic Palestinian compromise of 1988 when the PLO limited its claim to 22 percent of historic Palestine.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-08-15): The "Green Line" is the name given to the border between Israel and the West Bank. In 1949, the Green Line was considered the de facto border of the State of Israel and was named for the green ink that was used to draw the physical boundary line. [...] The Green Line is still relevant. Israeli law does not apply to the West Bank in the same way it does to the rest of Israel. And it doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon. The few times someone has tried to change the boundaries of the Green Line by annexing parts of settler communities into Israel, it has resulted in major international outcries.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-10-01): Historically, the Green Line boundary runs about 310km and stretches from the shores of the Dead Sea on the south through the city of Jerusalem and Nablus on the North of the two nations. The line was regarded as a demarcation meant to divide the two nations to show their limits of legal territory according to the definitions issued by the United Nations after the Israeli war of independence in 1948. It was, however, not defined as a national boundary. History has it that it was the Palestinian counterparts in the agreement that led to the formation of the line that insisted against having the Green Line as a boundary. [...] The aftermath of the 1967 six-day war saw a major change regarding the geographical Green Line between Israel and Palestine. With the Israeli military invading territory demarcated by the line to belong to Palestine, the significance of the line was annulled. Under the new Israeli occupation, the country regarded the territory beyond the infringed Green Line as occupied territory. Although the Israeli authorities did not incorporate the occupied territories as part of their legal land, continual Israeli military presence prevented Palestine from making a political and physical claim on the land.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-27): This interactive map shows how the city was divided in 1949. In March 1949, the armistice agreement between Israel and the Arab states surrounding historic Palestine was signed. These lines were drawn by negotiators in green ink on a map and were therefore referred to as the Green Line. This line represents both the armistice or ceasefire boundaries at the end of the 1948 War and the unofficial demarcation of the State of Israel’s boundaries at the time. This arrangement and this line divided Jerusalem, creating the unofficial boundaries of a Jewish part of the city under Israeli sovereignty and a Palestinian part of the city under Jordanian sovereignty (after Jordan annexed it).1
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-14): On May 15, regular Arab armies entered what had been Mandate Palestine. This intervention/invasion marked the transition of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine into the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The tide of battle soon turned against the Arabs, and Israel then launched a series of military offensives, greatly expanding its territorial holdings. The end of the war saw the Lausanne Conference of 1949. Following internationally supervised Arab-Israeli negotiations, a boundary based on the cease-fire lines of the war with minor territorial adjustments, commonly referred to as the Green Line, was agreed upon in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. The Green Line was expressly declared in the Armistice Agreements as a temporary demarcation line, rather than a permanent border, and the Armistice Agreements relegated the issue of permanent borders to future negotiations. The area to the west of the Jordan River came to be called the West Bank, and was annexed by Jordan in 1950;[16] and the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt. During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, Gaza Strip and Sinai peninsula from Egypt, and Golan Heights from Syria, and placed these territories under military occupation. [...] Israel and the Palestinian territories now lay entirely within the boundaries of the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. By the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979, Egypt renounced all claims to the Gaza Strip. In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank;[18] this was made official in the Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace of 1994. The Green Line is Israel's contested boundary with the Palestinian territories.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-11): The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations). [...] Similarly, Israel has had a de facto border with Gaza since it pulled its troops and settlers out in 2005, but Gaza and the West Bank are considered a single occupied entity by the UN, and the official borders have not yet been determined. The final status and contours of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are meant to be decided in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians living there under Israeli occupation, but decades of on-off talks have so far proved fruitless.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-17): The political geography of Israel and the Palestinian territories has been changing for more than a century. British imperial control, wars, Jewish settlements and Israeli occupation have greatly shrunk the Palestinian people’s land area, while Israel has expanded its footprint. Both Palestinians and Israelis see the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as their own, and Christians, Jews and Muslims all consider parts of the land sacred. [...] The area was then divided into three parts. The 1949 armistice line, or "Green Line," made up the boundaries of Israel, the West Bank (the area west of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. Until 1967, Egypt retained control of Gaza and Jordan retained control of the West Bank. [...] Today more than half a million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank on land once envisioned by the leaders at the Oslo talks as part of a future Palestinian state. Israel maintains full control over 60 percent of the area, with some roads that only Israelis can use and checkpoints that restrict the movements of Palestinians.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-17): The Green Line, or 1949 Armistice border,[1] was the armistice line of the State of Israel with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, as stipulated in the armistice agreements signed in 1949, after the 1947-1949 Palestine War. Its name was given because on the printed maps before the Six Day War, it was marked in green. Other nicknames for the green line are "June 4, 1967 borders", "'67 borders" and "48 borders". [...] Most parts of the Green Line today serve as an administrative border between the territories over which Israel's sovereignty applies, and territories administered by it through a military government or according to agreements with the Palestinian Authority. For example, in the cooperation agreement signed between the Magen David Adom organization and its counterpart the Palestinian Red Crescent in December 2005, it was determined that the green line would define the border between the organizations' geographical areas of activity.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2011-05-24): The Green Line. It was the line of demarcation that more than 60 years ago formed the de facto border between the new state of Israel and its Arab neighbors — Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, at the time all enemies of the Jewish state. [...] The Green Line was drawn as a result of the 1949 armistice agreements. Those lines changed in 1967 with Israel's capture of the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt; and the Golan Heights from Syria. [...] The result: In the long history of Israeli-Arab enmity and the question of Palestinian statehood, the debate over the Green Line — the pre-1967 boundaries — has raged far longer than the lines ever existed.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-08-01): The Green Line is a term used to delineate the demarcation line between Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Syria from the period following Israel’s 1948 Independence War until the 1967 Six Day War when Israel captured the West Bank, and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. It is reportedly named for the green pen used by officers negotiating the armistice in 1949 to delineate the borders between the countries. Today, the Green Line refers to the "pre June 1967" line in which Israeli territory does not include the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan, as compared to the "post 1967" line which includes all of those areas. It is the boundary that is most often the basis of land-for-peace proposals in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. [...] Israel maintains that the old 1949 armistice lines are indefensible — at its narrowest point from the Mediterranean coast to the demarcation line, Israel is only about nine miles wide. In prior negotiations, Israel has reportedly proposed "land swaps" to modify this line, whereby areas of Israeli territory within the Green Line would be incorporated into a Palestinian state, in exchange for including many of the large Israeli population centers living in settlement blocs within Israel’s permanent boundary.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-23): In a recent opinion piece for The Washington Post, noted Israeli activist and journalist Gershom Gorenberg referred numerous times to the Green Line as "Israel’s border." Gorenberg is far from being the only one to refer to the line that separated Israel from its Arab neighbors between 1948 and 1967 as a "border" (see here and here). Even the European Union, in determining which Israeli entities are eligible for EU funds, refers to Israel’s "pre-1967 borders." [...] Thus, as can be seen, the Green Line was never intended to be an official border and would only signify the armistice between Israel and its neighbors until a proper peace agreement would be reached. [...] As can be seen from the above analysis, the Green Line was never intended to be a permanent border between Israel and its neighbors. Rather, it was only meant to temporarily demarcate the positions of the IDF and the other militaries that had been involved in Israel’s War of Independence.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2004-07-09): The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion today that Israel's building of a barrier in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal and said construction must stop immediately and Israel should make reparations for any damage caused. [...] Observing that 80 per cent of Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory now live between the barrier and the so-called Green Line marking the 1949 boundary of Israel, the Court said the structure's route could "prejudge the future frontier between Israel and Palestine." [...] The judges noted that, combined with the Israeli settlements, which have been deplored by the Security Council, the barrier's construction alters the demographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territory and impedes the Palestinians' right to self-determination.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-09-14): Israeli Missions Around The WorldMFAAbout IsraelIsrael in MapsArmistice Lines (1949-1967) [...] Israel's territory according to the agreed 1949 Armistice Demarcation Line encompassed about 78% of the Mandate area, while the other parts, namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively. The 1949 Armistice Lines between Israel and its Arab neighbors came to be known as The Green Line.