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Rafah

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Control
National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Israel
Governorate
Rafah
Palestine grid
77/78
State
Palestine
• Arabic
رَفَح
• Density
2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi)

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Development

Demographics

Rafah Border Crossing

Climate

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Rafah

Nodes151
Edges150
Triples257
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013245
Components1

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Rafah

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related to After 1967 : Israeli occupation and settlement · 33
Rafah → After, April, Armilat's, Border Police, Both, Brazil, Camp David Accords, Canada, Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin, During, First Intifada, Gaza Strip, General Ariel Sharon, IDF, In, Israel, Israeli, Israeli Police, Khaled Musa Armilat, Khan Yunis
related to External links · 33
Rafah → Aljazeera, Blog, February, Franti Archived, Gaza, Gaza Strip, GazaReports, Hadad, Hip Hop Artist Michael, Human Rights WatchThe Olympia-Rafah, Laila, Madison, Mass Home Demolitions, Mohammed OmerRafah Smuggling TunnelsRafah, November, Olympia, Palestinian, Part, Project, Pundits
related to Ottoman and Egyptian period · 27
Rafah → Arabs, Archduke Ludwig Salvator, Austria, Bab, Egypt, Egyptian, Fragments, French, French Army, Gaza, Gazza, In, It, Liwa, May, Medinet, Muhammad Ali, Muslim, Nahiya, Napoleon
related to Early Muslim to Mamluk periods · 26
Rafah → Abbasids, According, Amr, Arab, As, Ayyubid, Balah, CE, Deir, District, Early Muslim, Egypt, Hamawi, However, In, Jund Filastin, Palestine, Province, Rafah's, Ramla
related to Development · 25
Rafah → After World War, Armistice Agreement, Bedouin, Beduin, British, British-ruled Egypt, During, During World War II, Egypt, Egypt-occupied Gaza, Egypt-Palestine Boundary, February, Following, Gaza, Gaza Strip, In, Israel, Israeli, October, Ottoman-ruled Palestine
related to Gaza war · 25
Rafah → Although, António Guterres, Benjamin Netanyahu, By February, Critics, December, During, February, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Gaza's, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Israeli, Israeli Defence Forces, More, Netanyahu, New York Times, On
related to British period · 20
Rafah → Anglo-American Committee, British, British Mandatory, Department, Gaza, Government Office, In, Inquiry, January, Lands, Mandatory, Muslim, Nine, Of, On, Palestine, Rafah's, Statistics, The, Village Statistics
related to Rafah Border Crossing · 19
Rafah → April, Border Guards, Egypt, Egyptian, European Union, Following, Formerly, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Israeli, Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard, November, October, On, Palestinian Authority, Rafah Border Crossing, September, This
related to 1948–1967 : under Egyptian control · 18
Rafah → After, Arab, During, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Israel Defence Force, Israeli, Israeli War, June, On Friday, Palestinian, Palestinian Protectorate, Palestinians, Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War, Suez Crisis, The, The United Nations
related to Demographics · 8
Rafah → In, Palestinian Central Bureau, PCBS, Rafah's, Refugees, Statistics, Sultan, Tall

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egypt gaza city israel israeli population border strip war idf forces palestine control refugee destroyed camp palestinians sinai egyptian british

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
RafahControlNational Committee for the Administration of Gaza Israel1.00infobox
RafahGovernorateRafah1.00infobox
RafahPalestine grid77/781.00infobox
RafahStatePalestine1.00infobox
Rafah• Arabicرَفَح1.00infobox
Rafah• Density2,700/km2 (7,000/sq mi)1.00infobox
Rafah• Head of MunicipalityAnwar al-Shaer (2019)1.00infobox
Rafah• MayorAhmed al-Soufi (2025)1.00infobox
Rafah• Total64 km2 (25 sq mi)1.00infobox
Rafah• Total171,8991.00infobox
Rafah• TypeCity1.00infobox
Rafahis asite of the Rafah Border Crossing0.90text

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