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Rafah. / 31.27250°N 34.25861°E / 31.27250; 34.25861. Rafah ( Arabic: رفح Rafaḥ [rafaħ]) is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the capital of the Rafah Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889. [ 4]
Rafah Border Crossing. / 31.24858°N 34.25923°E / 31.24858; 34.25923. The Rafah Border Crossing ( Arabic: معبر رفح, romanized : Ma`bar Rafaḥ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine 's Gaza Strip. It is located on the Egypt–Palestine border.
The Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels are tunnels across the Gaza–Egypt border, used to bypass the Rafah Border Crossing, which is used for exceptional cases only, when opened at all. The first recorded discovery of a tunnel by Israel was in 1983, after Israel had withdrawn from the Sinai. [4] The border, redrawn in 1982 after the Egypt–Israel ...
The Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing is Gaza's main lifeline to the outside world that is not run by Israel. It is on Gaza's southern border with Egypt, and has become the focal point of efforts ...
The entrance of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27. - Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images What is it usually like to cross the Rafah border?
The Egypt–Palestine border, [ 1] also called Egypt–Gaza border, is the 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. There is a buffer zone along the border which is about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the ...
Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The ...
2023–2024: Israel–Hamas war. Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip on 31 October 2023. On 7 October 2023, the paramilitaries in Gaza, led by the Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, invaded southwest Israel, targeting Israeli communities and military bases, killing at least 1,300 people and taking at least 236 hostages. [ 162]