Rafah in a sentence

RAFAH, Gaza Strip : Soccer fans in the Gaza Strip gather to watch the specially organised Ramadan Popular League, a competition held every year in the Rafah refugee camp which is home to over 120,000 people in the southern part of the coastal enclave.

A man carries a child, as Palestinians travel on foot along with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024.

A Palestinian lies on top of belongings as he flees Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 7, 2024.

More than a million people have fled to Rafah from attacks throughout the densely populated strip and there are growing concerns that Israel’s planned offensive in Rafah could lead to mass civilian casualties.

Palestinians travel in a truck as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 8, 2024.

The White House said in May that a deadly Israeli strike on Rafah did not cross a "red line" that Biden had seemingly set two months earlier when asked about a potential invasion of the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

A doctor in the southern Gaza city of Rafah told the news agency that “weight loss and anemia were common and people were so weak and dehydrated they were more susceptible to chest infections and skin conditions,” with children most at risk.

A Jordanian humanitarian aid convoy enters the Gaza Strip from Egypt in Rafah on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023.

Al-Qidra said a convoy of ambulances left Shifa, carrying wounded to Rafah, when a strike hit a vehicle on the edges of Gaza City.

A man from Thunder Bay is among hundreds of Canadians waiting for Global Affairs Canada's go-ahead to cross the Rafah border from Gaza into Egypt to escape the Israel-Hamas war.

An AFP correspondent reported continuous shelling of Rafah and Khan Yunis overnight, and the health ministry said "multiple" people had died in a strike on a house in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.

An airstrike hit a residential building some 200 yards from the U.N. headquarters in Rafah on Monday, killing and wounding several people, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene, underscoring the perils of humanitarian operations.

An IDF spokesperson declined to comment on Palestinian reports that Israeli forces had begun a ground offensive near Kerem Shalom, east of the Rafah Crossing into Egypt.

A Palestinian rioter burns tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border fence on September 23, 2023.

As a result of discussions mediated by Qatar, Israel and Egypt maintain strict control over the Rafah border crossing; Canada has no influence over the number of people who cross the border each day.

As I write this, 115 Filipinos working in war-torn Gaza are waiting at the Rafah border for permission to cross into Egypt—and from there to fly back safely to the Philippines.

A US official had told AFP Saturday that Egypt and Israel had reached an agreement for American citizens to leave through Rafah.

Because of the Israeli siege, the only available route out of Gaza is through Rafah in the south.

But the satellite analysis shows strikes have also destroyed buildings there, with damage in Khan Younis, Rafah and rural areas near the south-eastern border.

Cairo said the Rafah crossing was not officially closed but was inoperable due to Israeli strikes on the Gaza side.