• Rafah (Arabic: رفح, IPA: [ˈɾɑfɑħ]) is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip. It is the capital of Rafah center in North...
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    Rafah (Arabic: رفح Rafaḥ [rafaħ]) is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of the Rafah Governorate of the State of Palestine...
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    operation and ordered the evacuation of eastern Rafah. On 6 May, Hamas accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar, but Israel's war cabinet unanimously...
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    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...
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    by Hamas. The joint authority for the Rafah Border Crossing was transferred to the Palestinian Authority and Egypt for restricted passage by Palestinian...
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    is about 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international...
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    Rafah" references the Rafah offensive, an ongoing military operation in and around the city of Rafah, a city near the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt....
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    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...
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    The Egypt–Gaza barrier is a steel border barrier constructed by Egypt along its 14 km (8.5 miles) border with the Gaza Strip. The Rafah border crossing...
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  • monitor operations at the Rafah Border Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in accordance with the Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing of 15 November...
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    Rafah Governorate along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah. During the period of its establishment...
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    in Gaza, Egypt has provided significant humanitarian aid to the Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing. On November 1, 2023, Egypt has also allowed...
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  • invasion of Rafah 'would take time'. On 30 January, Israeli intelligence chiefs met with Egyptian officials in Cairo to discuss an offensive in Rafah. On 1...
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    currency, gold, drugs, and cloth from Egypt. The IDF launched a series of armored raids on the Gaza Strip (mainly Rafah and refugee camps around Gaza). On...
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    The Battle of Rafah was a military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces and the Egyptian Army in the final stage of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War....
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    crossings.[citation needed] There is also one crossing along the Egypt–Gaza border, the Rafah Crossing, though it is limited to the crossing of people; as...
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    rainiest places are in and around Alexandria and Rafah. The sunshine duration is high all over Egypt, ranging from a low of 3,300 hours along the northernmost...
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  • and Gaza Protectorate following the Suez Crisis. The town of Rafah, lying on the Egypt–Gaza border, had been one of two invasion points during the initial...
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    weapons and other goods into the Gaza Strip. After the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979, the town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, was split by this buffer...
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  • The Rafah terror attack was a terrorist attack conducted by the Islamic State – Sinai Province on an Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoint in Rafah in North...
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    Padang Besar, Malaysia Padang Besar, Thailand Rafah divided between the Gaza Strip and Egypt Rafah, Egypt Resülayn, divided along the Baghdad Railway under...
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    The Islamic Emirate of Rafah was a short-lived unrecognized Islamic state located in Rafah. It was founded by Jund Ansar Allah when they declared independence...
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    2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine UNRWA Rafah refugee camp profile Oroub El-Abed, Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948, IDRC, 2009, pages 200-201...
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  • Rafah. The attack, which set the camp on fire, killed between 45 and 50 Palestinians and injured more than 200. Sometimes referred to as the Rafah tent...
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    January 2008, Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip set off an explosion near the Rafah border crossing, destroying part of the 2003 wall. The United Nations estimates...
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  • Pharonic Egypt and Assyria, at Rafah, during the reign of Pharaoh Osorkon IV Battle of Raphia (217 BC), a battle between the Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid...
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  • Obour Port Said Port Fuad Qaha Qallin Qalyub Qena Qift Quesna Qus Qutur Rafah Ras Burqa Ras El Bar Ras Gharib Ras Sedr Ras Shokeir Rosetta Ras ElHekma...
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    Gallant announced the IDF would turn to Rafah once they "complete the mission" in Khan Yunis. Following Egypt's refusal to open its borders, displaced...
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    cabinet voted to invade Rafah. Later that day, the IDF entered the outskirts of Rafah and approached the Rafah Crossing and Egyptian border. On 7 May, the...
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    Egypt sent 40 tanks to the Rafah border. Eight people were killed and at least eighteen wounded in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Rafah....
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