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[[File:Israel green lines.png|right|thumb|upright|Israel's 1949 Green Line (green thin line) and demilitarized zones (green thick line/areas)]]
On 15 May, 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. On September 22, 1948, during a truce in the war, the [[Provisional State Council]] of Israel passed a law annexing all land that Israel had captured in that war, and declaring that from then on, any part of Palestine taken by the Israeli army would automatically be annexed to Israel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|access-date=January 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622033259/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|archive-date=June 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 (Israel)|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;<ref>In the ''Act of Union'', 1950.</ref> and the Gaza Strip was controlled 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]].
On September 22, 1948, during a truce in the war, the [[Provisional State Council]] of Israel passed a law to annex all land that Israel had captured in the war, and declaring that from then on, any part of Palestine taken by the Israeli army would automatically be annexed to Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|access-date=January 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622033259/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|archive-date=June 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> This, effectively, annexed to Israel all land within the Green Line.
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