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The little stripe at the bottom of Gaza, Palestine that everyone forgets. Location: Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine
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Rafah (Arabic: رفح, Hebrew: רפיח Rafiah) is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Strip, on the Egyptian border, and a nearby town on the Egyptian side of the border, on the Sinai Peninsula. Over the ages it has been known as "Robihwa" by the ancient Egyptians, "Rafihu" by the Assyrians, "Raphia" by the Greeks and Romans, "Raphiaḥ" by Israelites (as well as in Modern Hebrew) and now "Rafah". The Aramaic text Targum Onkelos interpreted the Biblical location of Hazerim as referring to Rafah, but there is no other evidence for this.
It is the largest town on the Gaza Strip - Egypt border, with a population of approximately 130,000, of which some 84,000 live in the two refugee camps about it, Canada Camp (Tell as-Sultan Camp) to the north, and Rafah camp to the south.[1] It serves as the district capital of the Rafah Governorate. Yasser Arafat International Airport, Gaza's only airport, is located just south of the city; the airport operated from 1998 to 2001.
Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the only crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Formerly operated by Israeli military forces, control of the crossing was transferred to the Palestinian Authority in September 2005 as part of the larger Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. A European Union commission began monitoring the crossing in November 2005 amid Israeli security concerns, and in April 2006 Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard assumed responsibility for the site.[2]
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January
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- The Al-Samouni Family
- Ceasfire, what ceasfire ?(II)
- Ceasfire, what ceasefire?
- Aftermath - Jabalia
- Aftermath - Beit Lahiya
- Counting the cost...
- PNN - Palestine News Network - Ten more people fou...
- the Batran family
- When a Ceasefire is not
- Fida Qishta's article on Khoza'a atrocities in tod...
- Devastation in the village of Khoza'a
- And just for being clear
- As follow up from PCHR
- What is this weapons???
- "It was the hardest day of our lives"
- Our Rafah School (they destroyed the other)
- Footage from Rafah + Abu Jamil
- Song for Gaza (thnx)
- Seriously...wtf....WTF???
- Citizens of Rafah (you are doomed)
- Tabula Gaza
- POW Camps now in Gaza
- Rafah Exodus: 7th January 2009
- Day 11 of the Israeli War On Gaza
- video: rafah kids pick up the pieces
- Palestine <> Hamas but even so...
- Is the Real Target Hamas Rule?
- Shop
- Israeli air strike hits childrens' park in Rafah
- Interviews
- To fish...
- Prison
- School
- About my daily life in Gaza Strip, Rafah.
- Video from Rafah border following Israeli air-strikes
- they even kill the chickens
- 3am
- photos from Shifa ICU Rafah
- not a terrororists house part 2
- not a terrorists house part 1
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