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Rafah (Arabic: رفح Rafaḥ) was a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine. It was 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]
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 Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international border that was confirmed in the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty . Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing; as such, the Egypt–Gaza border is only open to the passage of people, not of goods.
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 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 Philadelphi Corridor, also called Philadelphi Route, is the Israeli code name for a narrow strip of land, some 100 metres wide and 14 km (8.7 miles) long, situated along the entirety of the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
An estimated 1.4 million people are currently displaced in the Gaza strip, as the Rafah crossing opens to allow foreign nationals and injured Palestinians to leave. ... Jordan on the map (Google Maps)
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.