"Rafah (Arabic: رفح – Rafaḥ) is a Palestinian city and refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate, ...
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located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Gaza City. Rafah´s population of 152,950 (2014) is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan camp form separate localities.
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai in 1982, Rafah was split into a Gazan part and an Egyptian part, dividing families, separated by barbed-wire barriers. The core of the city was destroyed by Israel and Egypt to create a large buffer zone." - (en.wikipedia.org 06.02.2020)
- Latitude31.288610458374
- Longitude34.251945495605