Rafah is a largely destroyed and depopulated city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, serving as the capital of the Rafah Governorate, located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City. It had a population of 171,889 in 2017; amid the Gaza war, about 1.4 million people from Gaza City and Khan Yunis, roughly 70 percent of Gaza's population, were displaced to Rafah as of February 2024, and by April 2025 most of the city had been destroyed by Israeli forces and had fallen under Israeli control.
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population = 171,899
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