(23. February 1949) For the President of the Security Council:

“I have the honour to inform you that an armistice agreement
between Egypt and Israel has been signed this morning, 24 February at Rhodes.

The text of the agreement is as follows: (…)

Article VI

1. In the GAZA-RAFAH area the Armistice Demarcation Line shall be as delineated in paragraph 2.B (i) of the Memorandum of 13 November 1948 on the implementation of the Security Council resolution of 4 November 1948, namely by a line from the coast at the mouth of Wadi Hasi in an easterly direction through Deir Suneid and across the Gaza-Al-Majdal Highway to a point of 3 kilometres east of the Highway, then in a southerly direction parallel to the Gaza-Al Majdal Highway, and continuing thus to the Egyptian frontier.