Rafah Border Crossing
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border crossings between Egypt and Gaza Strip
Key facts
- Coordinates
- 31°14′55″N 34°15′33″E / 31.24858°N 34.25923°E / 31.24858; 34.25923
- Crosses
- Gaza–Egypt border
- Locale
- Rafah, Egypt , Rafah, Gaza Strip
- Maintained by
- Border Guard Corps (Egyptian side) , European Union Border Assistance Mission to Rafah , Palestinian Authority (Gazan side)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border checkpoint
- Part of
- Saladin Corridor
- Named after
- Rafah
- Country
- Palestine
- Located in
- Rafah Governorate
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Location
- Rafah
- Image
- Egyptian Convoy to Gaza, Palestine.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Rafah
- Connects with
- Salah al-Din Road
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- Commons category
- Rafah Land Port
- name in native language
- مَعْبَرُ رَفَحْ
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Encyclopedic overview
The Rafah Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر رفح, romanized: Ma`bar Rafaḥ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel.
The Rafah crossing was opened by Israel after the 1979 peace treaty and remained under Israeli control until 2005, when it was transferred to Egyptian, Palestinian Authority, and EU control, giving Palestinians partial control of an international border for the first time. In 2007, after Hamas seized Gaza, the EU withdrew, and Israel imposed a complete blockade, effectively sealing Gaza. In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah crossing. Since then, the Rafah crossing has only opened intermittently for Palestinian movement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rafah Border Crossing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.