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Rafah (other)
Rafah is a city in the Gaza Strip. Rafah may also refer to: Places * Rafah Camp, Rafah, Gaza, Palestine; a refugee camp located next to the eponymous city * Rafah Governorate, Gaza, Palestine; a governorate bordering Egypt whose capital is Rafah * Rafah Border Crossing, Gaza—Egypt; a border gate between Rafah, Sinai and Rafah, Gaza * Rafah, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt; a city on the border of Gaza * Islamic Emirate of Rafah (2009), a short-lived self-declared state in Gaza People * Rafah DiCostanzo (born 1962), Canadian politician * Rafah Nanjeba Torsa (born 1998), Bangladeshi actress See also * * Battle of Rafah (other) * Rafa (other) Rafa is a masculine given name. Rafa or RAFA may also refer to: Rafa * Rafa, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in central northeast Poland * Battle of Rafa, a First World War victory by the British Empire over the Ottoman Empire * Rafae ... * Raffa (other) {{dab, geo Disambiguation pages [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah
Rafah ( ) is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889. Due to the Gaza war, about 1.4 million people from Gaza City and Khan Yunis, about 70% of Gaza's population, were displaced to Rafah, as of February 2024. By April 2025, most of the city was destroyed during the war. After the 1948 Palestine war, Occupation of the Gaza Strip by the United Arab Republic, Egypt governed the area and refugee camps for displaced Palestinians who 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, fled or were expelled from what became Israel were established. During the Suez Crisis, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) killed 111 Palestinians, including 103 refugees in the Rafah refugee camp, during the 1956 Rafah massacre. During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israeli forces occupied the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip after capturing them from Egypt. In the same year, IDF troops bulldozed an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah Governorate
The Rafah Governorate () is a Governorates of Palestine, Governorate of Palestine in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or ''muhfaza'' is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the governorate had a population of 267,635 in mid-year 2022. It contains the closed down Yasser Arafat International Airport. Localities * Al-Bayuk (al-Buyuk) * Al-Mawasi, Rafah, Al-Mawasi * Al Qarya as Suwaydiya * Rafah (seat) * Shokat as-Sufi Refugee camps * Rafah Camp * Tel al-Sultan refugee camp, Tel al-Sultan (Tall as-Sultan) References Sources * External links * maps.lib.utexas.edu Rafah Governorate, Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the Gaza Strip {{StateofPalestine-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah Border Crossing
The Rafah Border Crossing () or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip. The Rafah crossing was opened by Israel after the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, 1979 peace treaty and remained under Israeli control until 2005, when it was transferred to Egyptian, Palestinian Authority, and EU control, giving Palestinians partial control of an international border for the first time. In 2007, after Hamas seized Gaza, the EU withdrew, and Israel imposed a complete blockade, effectively sealing Gaza. In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah crossing. Since then, the Rafah crossing has only opened intermittently for Palestinian movement. Under a 2007 agreement between Egypt and Israel, Egypt controls the crossing but imports through the Rafah crossing require Israeli approval. Israel took control of the Rafah Border Crossing on May 7, 2024, during Gaza war and withdrew in Jan 2025 as part of ceasefire agreement. Rafah Land Port The ''Rafah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah, North Sinai Governorate
Rafah (, ) is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt. Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian government announced in early 2015 that it would raze the entire city and build a new settlement for its residents, in order to expand a security buffer between Egypt and Gaza Strip. The Egyptian military began bulldozing sections of Rafah in late 2014. By 2021, the Egyptian military had demolished at least 7,460 buildings in Rafah. History When Israel withdrew from the Sinai in 1982, Rafah was split into a Gazan part and an Egyptian part, dividing families, separated by barbed-wire barriers. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Emirate Of Rafah
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world's Major religious groups, second-largest religious population after Christians. Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a Fitra, primordial faith that was revealed many times through earlier Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophets and messengers, including Adam in Islam, Adam, Noah in Islam, Noah, Abraham in Islam, Abraham, Moses in Islam, Moses, and Jesus in Islam, Jesus. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God in Islam, God and the unaltered, final revelation. Alongside the Quran, Muslims also believe in previous Islamic holy books, revelations, such as the Torah in Islam, Tawrat (the Torah), the Zabur (Psalms), and the Gospel in Islam, Injil (Gospel). They believe that Muhammad in Islam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
