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    The Battle of Rafah (2009) took place between Hamas and Jund Ansar Allah in the Rafah Governorate of the Gaza Strip. Fighting between the two Palestinian...
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  • The Battle of Rafah primarily refers to any of the military engagements fought in and around Rafah, today in the Gaza Strip: Battle of Raphia (720 BC)...
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    years after the Hamas takeover of Gaza. It collapsed after the 2009 Battle of Rafah. On Friday, 14 August 2009, the leader of Jund Ansar Allah, Abdel Latif...
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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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  • Sheikh Abdel Latif Moussa. On 14 August 2009, Moussa announced the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. The group criticized...
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  • Hamas Search for "battle of Gaza"  or "Gaza battle" on Wikipedia. Battle of Rafah (disambiguation) Battle of Rafah (2009) Invasion of Gaza (disambiguation)...
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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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    casualties of war Palestinian casualties of war Prior conflicts 2014 Gaza War Battle of Rafah (2009) Battle of Gaza (2007) Battle of Rafah (1949) "Reported...
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  • Look up Rafah in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rafah is a city in the Gaza Strip. Rafah may also refer to: Rafah Camp, Rafah, Gaza, Palestine; a refugee...
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    12–24 May 2004, involving an invasion and siege of Rafah. The operation was started after the deaths of eleven Israeli soldiers in two Palestinian attacks...
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    border of Mandatory Palestine. The new border divided Rafah into two towns, one Palestinian and one Egyptian, separating families on both sides of the border...
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  • shelling of Beit Hanoun 23 January 2008 2008 breach of the Egypt–Gaza border 2008 Operation Hot Winter 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09) 2009 Battle of Rafah (2009)...
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    Egypt–Gaza border (category Borders of Egypt)
    zone along the border which is about 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip...
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    Israel–Hamas war (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from October 2024)
    Israeli war cabinet voted to invade Rafah. Later that day, the IDF entered the outskirts of Rafah and approached the Rafah Crossing and Egyptian border. On...
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    Bislamach Brigade (category Articles needing additional references from December 2009)
    to Rafah". The Times of Israel. 1 March 2024. "'High likelihood' Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by troops in Gaza". Times of Israel...
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    complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah crossing point. The blockade's...
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    released, Rafah stays closed", Ynetnews, 16 June 2008 Foreign Affairs Committee (2009). "Examination of Witnesses (Questions 1-19)". House of Commons....
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    Khan Yunis massacre (category Israeli massacres of Palestinians)
    killed in Rafah). Israeli authorities say that IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted. On 15 December 1956, the Special Report of the Director...
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    Givati Brigade (category Brigades of Israel)
    bulldozers, managed to suppress most of Rafah's tunnels. On May 11 and May 12, 2004, two armored personnel carriers of Givati's Dolev engineering battalion...
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    of workers at the Central World Kitchen. On May 5, Finkelman gave the opening order in the Battle of Rafah, and in September, the decisive defeat of the...
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    Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from October 2023)
    town of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, was split by this buffer zone. One part is located in the southern part of Gaza, and the smaller part of the town...
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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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  • The Battle of Netzarim is an ongoing battle in the Israel-Hamas war, inside the Gaza Strip. The fighting is centered around the Netzarim Corridor, a road...
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  • Friday refers to a series of military strikes that took place in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, over a period of four days starting on 1 August...
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    Golani Brigade (category Brigades of Israel)
    Egyptians in the Gaza Strip, in Operation Assaf, the Battle of Hill 86 and later battles around Rafah. In March 1949, the brigade was tasked with capturing...
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    The battle of Sderot (Hebrew: קרב שדרות; Arabic: معركة سديروت) began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on southern...
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    Hannibal Directive (category Prisoners of war)
    and ground attacks on residential areas of Rafah during the Hannibal Directive attempt to prevent capture of Lt. Goldin. Amnesty and Forensic Architecture...
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  • members of Hamas. In Gaza City, five children from the same family were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israeli jets bombed tunnels in the Rafah area. These...
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    Gaza–Israel barrier (category Borders of the Gaza Strip)
    one crossing along the Egypt–Gaza border, the Rafah Crossing, though it is limited to the crossing of people; as per Israel's demand, any cargo or goods...
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    The Battle of Rafa, also known as the Action of Rafah, fought on 9 January 1917, was the third and final battle to complete the recapture of the Sinai...
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