City Line (Jerusalem)

In Jerusalem, the "City Line" was a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) segment of the Green Line that divided the city between Israel and Jordan as part of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. On one side was West Jerusalem, which was part of Israel, and on the other side was East Jerusalem, which was part of the Jordanian-annexed West Bank; East Jerusalem also included the Old City and the Israeli exclave of Mount Scopus. Additionally, a "Demilitarized Area" surrounding the British Government House was controlled by the United Nations. The City Line had numerous fortifications and obstacles on both sides, and various buildings in the city that were situated along the boundary were used as military posts. This arrangement was in place until the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, when Israel captured the entirety of Jerusalem. In 1988, six years before the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, the Jordanian government formally renounced the country's territorial claim to Jerusalem in favour of supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state, though the Jordanian Waqf continues to exercise authority over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City. Pursuant to the two-state solution laid out by the Oslo Accords, East Jerusalem has been sought by the Palestine Liberation Organization as the capital city of the State of Palestine.