Summary
The village and vicinity on the Egypt-Palestine frontier which Article VIII of the Egyptian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement demilitarizes, totally excluding both Egyptian and Israeli armed forces, and where Article X places the headquarters of the Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (Egyptian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.5-6).
Details
- The demilitarized area is bounded in Article VIII, paragraph 2 by points on the Egypt-Palestine frontier five kilometres northwest and southeast of stated road and railway intersections, with intermediate points given by map references that are partly garbled in the text copy (PDF p.5).
- The Chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commission and United Nations Observers attached to the Commission are responsible for ensuring full implementation of the demilitarization (Article VIII, paragraph 1, PDF p.5).
- Movement of either Party’s armed forces into the defined area for any purpose, or failure to respect any provision of Article VIII, when confirmed by United Nations representatives, constitutes a flagrant violation of the Agreement (Article VIII, paragraph 5, PDF p.6).
- The Mixed Armistice Commission maintains its headquarters at El Auja (Article X, paragraph 2, PDF p.7).
Related pages
Egyptian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, Egypt