Rafah

American  

[rahf-ah, rahf-uh] / ˈrɑf ɑ, ˈrɑf ə /

noun

1. a city split between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and serving as the only crossing point between them.

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Example Sentences

"She phoned me just before travelling and asked me to pray for her," said her mother, sat in a mourning tent in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

From Reuters

On Tuesday, around three weeks after her death, Abu Jazar's body was brought home for burial in her town of Rafah.

From Reuters

The bodies of the eight Palestinians on Adam’s boat were returned to Gaza on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

From Seattle Times

Palestinians from the West Bank traveled to Qatar this week from Jordan’s airport, while Palestinians in Gaza exited into Egypt through the enclave’s Rafah border crossing.

From Seattle Times

But at least one strike, which killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in the southern city of Rafah late Saturday, also killed five civilians as Israel flattened one home and heavily damaged others.

From Seattle Times