Purple Line (border)

Purple Line (border)

The purple line was the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six Day War.

History

Syria gained independence from France in 1946 and on May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from Palestine as Israel declared its independence. Syrian forces participated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War between Arab forces and the newly established State of Israel. In 1949, armistice agreements were signed and a provisional border between Syria and Israel was delineated (based on the 1923 international border; see "San Remo conference"), Syria held on to the Golan Heights. Syrian and Israeli forces clashed on numerous occasions in the spring of 1951. The hostilities, which stemmed from Syrian opposition to an Israeli drainage project in the demilitarized zone, ceased on May 15, after intercession by the United Nations Security Council.

In June 1967 after battling Syria, Jordan and Egypt in the Six Day War, Israel captured the entire length of the Golan Heights including its principal city Quneitra. The resulting ceasefire line (dubbed the "Purple Line" as it was drawn on the UN's maps) was supervised by a series of positions and observation posts manned by observers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation and became the new effective border between Israel and Syria.

In a surprise attack consisting of a massive armoured thrust, the Syrians crossed the Purple Line into the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. After several days of very heavy fighting on the Golan they were pushed back into Syria and Israel conquered further territory inside Syria beyond the Purple Line by the time a ceasefire was reached. In the disengagements negotiations after the war, Israel and Syria agreed on May 31 1974 to pull back their respective forces on the Golan Heights to the Purple Line. [ [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/4f79ae6df5f9b5ac852560cb0075d710!OpenDocument] (the "Agreement on Disengagement" (S/11302/Add.1, annexes I and II) [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/4fcbeabf0e58068085256db70074a828?OpenDocument] ] On the same day, a United Nations buffer zone was set up and the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone (UNDOF) was established by the United Nations after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 350

References

ee also

* Green Line (Israel)
* Green Line (Cyprus)
* Green Line (Lebanon)
* Blue Line (Lebanon)


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