Block J
District of Rafaḩ
in Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory
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El Gora Airport (17 mi) -
Be'er Sheva (Teyman) Airport (27 mi) - El Arish International Airport (29 mi)
- Ben Gurion International Airport (62 mi)
- Sde Dov Airport (65 mi)
- Bar Yehuda Airfield (67 mi)
- Ein Yahav Airfield (72 mi)
- Ovda International Airport (101 mi)
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Queen Alia International Airport (106 mi) -
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (189 mi) -
Damascus International Airport (197 mi)
- Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves (Unesco heritage, 43 mi)
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Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir (Unesco heritage, 59 mi) - White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement (Unesco heritage, 62 mi)
- Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Unesco heritage, 63 mi)
- Masada (Unesco heritage, 65 mi)
- Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev (Unesco heritage, 74 mi)
- Petra (Unesco heritage, 96 mi)
- Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) (Unesco heritage, 99 mi)
- Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves (Unesco heritage, 104 mi)
- Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba (Unesco heritage, 105 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 31.287 and 34.260 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 31° 17' 13" and E 34° 15' 34"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Shekel - ILS
- Spoken languages:
- Arabic
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 08:37 PM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Asia/Gaza
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:12 am and 3:43 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -27.600 and -144.317 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Area - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 4,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Palestinian Territory.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Palestinian Territory. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Explore Block J
The district Block J of Rafaḩ in Gaza Strip is located in Palestinian Territory about 3,113 mi north-east of , the country's capital.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Rafah, Ash Shaykh Zuwayd, Gaza, Al -Arish and Beersheba. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 23°C / 73 °F
| Morning Temperature | 17°C / 63 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 23°C / 73 °F |
| Night Temperature | 20°C / 68 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 44% |
| Air Pressure | 1016 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (3 mph) from South-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 48% of sky |
| General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
20°C (68 °F)
18°C (65 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
21°C (70 °F)
19°C (65 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
21°C (70 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Israeli bombing of Rafah, Gaza
Israel bombing Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to close the tunnels, This video was shot from inside Rafah, the first shot you can see the rocket coming in.
Tall as - Sultan, Rafah, Gaza Strip | workforhope.org
http://workforhope.org/ is the humanitarian meaning of the "cash for work" project that COOPI and ECHO led in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Gaza strip and West Bank).
مصر العربية | معبر رفح .. حكاية انتظار ومعاناة لا تنتهي
ازدحم آلاف الفلسطينيين في صالة الانتظار بمعبر رفح البري على الحدود بين قطاع غزة ومصر، منذ ساعات فجر الاثنين...
Gaza smuglertunnel / Gaza smuggling tunnel
Bli med på en krypetur ned i Gazas smuglertunneler / Inside the Gaza smuggling tunnels.
رحله الى غزه
alittel storey from gaza to all the world.
By the streets of Khan Yunes - خان يونس
hear the noise of diesel generators in front of the shops while the grid is shut down.
modeling Wrestling Circuit 3d
محمد زعرب http://www.facebook.com/mohamed.zourob?ref=tn_tnmn صفحتي علي الفيس بوك http://www.facebook.com/mohammed.design قناتي http://www.youtube.com/user/zozomomo1234?...
modeling bus 3d
محمد زعرب http://www.facebook.com/mohamed.zourob?ref=tn_tnmn صفحتي علي الفيس بوك http://www.facebook.com/mohammed.design قناتي http://www.youtube.com/user/zozomomo1234?...
Children's education - Hamas style
This the the way to educate youngsters - Hamas style.
la guerre des singes sur gaza
Dix huitiéme jour, Ghaza toujours sous le feu du bombardement d'Israël, personne ne veut bouger le petit doigt...lâches!
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Battle of Rafa
The Battle of Rafa, also known by the British as the Action of Rafah, took place on 9 January 1917 completed the recapture of the Sinai Peninsula during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Desert Column attacked the entrenched Ottoman Army garrison at el Magruntein to the south of Rafa, close to the frontier between the Sultanate of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, in the area to the north and east of Sheikh Zowaiid.
Murder of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters
The murder of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters was a shooting attack on May 2, 2004, in which Palestinian militants killed Tali Hatuel, a Jewish settler, who was eight months pregnant along with her four daughters, aged two to ten. The attack took place near the Kissufim Crossing near their home in Gush Katif bloc of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada.
Gush Katif
Gush Katif was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. Gush Katif was specifically mentioned by Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who fell victim to an assassin in 1995, as essential to Israel's security border. In August 2005, the Israeli army moved the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif to Israel. They were evicted from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip portion of the Palestinian Territories.
Battle of Raphia
The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was a battle fought on 22 June 217 BC near modern Rafah between the forces of Ptolemy IV Philopator, king of Egypt and Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom during the Syrian Wars. It was one of the largest battles of the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Diadochi and was waged to determine the sovereignty of Coele Syria.
Hevel Shalom
Hevel Shalom is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai. This area was elected to be substitutive area for evacuees from Yamit.
Yasser Arafat International Airport
Yasser Arafat International Airport, formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, in between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. It is owned, and was operated, by the Palestinian Authority, and served as the home airport for Palestinian Airlines. The airport was able to handle 700,000 passengers per year and operated 24 hours and 364 days a year.
Sheikh Khalifa City
Sheikh Khalifa City in the southwestern Gaza Strip, is the site named after United Arab Emirates President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan who finances the construction of a major housing programme of 3000 apartments http://uaeinteract. com/government/development_aid. asp. Once called "Morag", when it was a Gush Katif settlement, it has been retroceded to the Palestinian authorities after the settlers' buildings and facilities were destroyed by Israel in 2005.
Rafah Governorate
The Rafah Governorate is a governorate of the Palestinian National Authority in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or muhfaza is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the governorate had a population of 171,363 in mid-year 2006. It contains the closed down Yasser Arafat International Airport.
Khan Yunis Governorate
The Khan Yunis Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority, located in the southern Gaza Strip. Its district capital is Khan Yunis. The governorate has a total population of approximately 280,000. Its land area is 69.61% urban, 12.8% rural and 17.57% comprising the Khan Yunis refugee camp.
2008 breach of the Gaza–Egypt border
The breach of the Gaza-Egypt border began on 23 January 2008, after Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip set off an explosion near the Rafah Border Crossing, destroying part of the Israel and Egypt – Gaza Strip barrier. The United Nations estimates that as many as half the 1.5 million population of the Gaza Strip crossed the border into Egypt seeking food and supplies. Israeli police went on an increased alert due to fears that militants would acquire weapons in Egypt.
Sufa, Sinai
Sufa was an Israeli settlement and kibbutz in Sinai. Located two kilometres east of Yamit, it was evacuated as part of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1982. Its former residents established a new kibbutz by the same name in the north-western Negev desert near the border with the Gaza Strip. Sufa was established in 1974 as a Nahal settlement, its name derived from the severe dust storms which occurred in the area. On 17 January 1977 it was recognised as a kibbutz.
Talmei Yosef, Sinai
Talmei Yosef was an Israeli settlement and moshav in the Sinai Peninsula. Located near Yamit, it was evacuated in 1982 as a result of the Camp David Accords. The moshav was established in 1977 by a gar'in group of immigrants from South Africa and the United States. It was named after Yosef Weitz, a former director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund.
Avshalom, Sinai
Avshalom was an Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula. Avshalom was founded in 1973, next to Sadot. It was named Merkaz Sadot (lit. Sadot Center) and later Yad On (lit. Hand of Strength). In 1979, it was renamed in honor of Avshalom Feinberg, a leader of the Nili espionage network who had died in Sinai during World War I. Avshalom was dismantled three years later as a result of the Camp David Accords. In 1990 a new communal settlement by the same name was founded in Israel.
Netiv HaAsara, Sinai
Netiv HaAsara was a moshav and Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula. Located near Yamit, it was founded in 1973 and was named for ten soldiers that were killed in a helicopter accident south of Rafah in 1971. After the moshav was evacuated as part of the Camp David Accords, 70 families who had previously lived in the settlement founded a new moshav, also called Netiv HaAsara in the north-western Negev desert in Israel.
Hof Aza Regional Council
The Hof Aza Regional Council was a regional council of Israel until 2005 when its residents were evicted from their homes and the area was liquidated as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. The seat was in Neve Dekalim. The public buildings of the regional council and adjacent strip mall in Neve Dekalim were not destroyed and the Palestinian Al-Aqsa University opened a campus on the site shortly after the Israeli evacuation.
Canada Camp
Following Israel’s occupation of the Sinai in 1967, some 5,000 Palestinian refugees in Rafah were forced to relocate when their shelters were destroyed by the Israeli authorities during road widening and "security measures" of the early 1970s.
Dikla
Dikla (Palm) was an Israeli settlement in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War, until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Located in the Rafah Plain region south of the Gaza Strip, Dikla was established in May 1969 as a pioneer Nahal outpost known as Dekalim (palms).
Rafah, Egypt
Rafah or Egyptian Rafah is an important city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza strip. It is the capital of Rafah Markaz in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt. In the Egyptian language of Ancient Egypt, the city was known as Rapia.
Battle of Nirim
The Battle of Nirim, also Battle of Dangour, was a military engagement between the Egyptian army and the Jewish Haganah on May 15, 1948, the first day of the Egyptian invasion of Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was fought in kibbutz Nirim, founded just two years earlier as part of the 11 points in the Negev. The Egyptian 6th Battalion attacked about 40 Israeli defenders at dawn on May 15, backed by armored vehicles, mortars, cannons and aircraft.
Battle of Hill 86
The Battle of Hill 86 was a military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces and the Egyptian Army in Operation Horev. It was fought on December 22–23, 1948, and was the first battle of the operation. The Israelis initiated the battle, as well as a concurrent raid on the Arab village 'Abasan and aerial and naval shelling of the coastal strip, in hopes of fooling the Egyptians into thinking that the coming operation would be aimed at isolating the Egyptian forces in Gaza.
Battle of Rafah (1948)
The Battle of Rafah was a military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces and the Egyptian Army in the final stage of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was fought on January 3–8, 1949, just south of Rafah, today in the Gaza Strip. The battle was initiated by Israel as part of Operation Horev, on the backdrop of the Sinai battles just before. The Israelis were hoping to encircle all Egyptian forces in Palestine and drive them back to Egypt.
Gaza Airstrip
Gaza Airstrip, also known as Gush Katif Airport, is a small airfield in the Gaza Strip approximately two miles north of the town of Khan Yunis, and adjacent to the UNRWA Khan Younis refugee camp. It is immediately west of the former Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal, and named after the former Israeli settlement area of Gush Katif. It may be on the site of the former RAF Gaza, which was first used as an airstrip in 1941.
2006 Hamas cross-border raid
The 2006 Hamas cross-border raid was a cross-border raid which was carried out on 25 June 2006 in which a Palestinian militant squad thought to consist of 7 to 8 militants managed to cross the border through an underground tunnel near the Kerem Shalom Crossing and attack Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military positions.
Kerem Shalom border crossing
Kerem Shalom border crossing is a border crossing on the Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border managed by the Israel Airports Authority.
August 2012 southern Israel cross-border attack
The August 2012 southern Israel cross-border attack occurred on 5 August 2012, when armed men ambushed an Egyptian military base in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 16 soldiers and stealing two armored cars, which they used to infiltrate into Israel. The attackers broke through the Kerem Shalom border crossing to Israel, where one of the vehicles exploded. They then engaged in a firefight with soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, during which six of the attackers were killed.
These districts also belong to Rafaḩ.
Other districtsThese are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Rafaḩ.
Popular in vicinityThese are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Rafaḩ.
- Rafah
- Ash Shaykh Zuwayd
- Gaza
- Al -Arish
- Beersheba
- Ramla
- Tel Aviv
- Jerusalem
- Karney Shomron
- Bi'r al `Abd
- Ghawr al Mazra`ah
- Jericho
- `Ayy
- At Tafilah
- Al `Arid
- Ar Rishah
- Fuqu`
- Al Mazar al Janubi
- Busayra
- Al Qasr
- Ash Shunah al Janubiyah
- Al Husayniyah
- Karak
- Al Mughayyir
- Ash Shawbak
- Ma`in
- Dhiban
- Petra
- Mulayh
- Al Faysaliyah
This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Ḩawḑ Jī, Block J, حوض جي
