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Faces of Rafah

5 people on Faces of Palestine were born here.

The southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt.

“Thank you students for Columbia”, painted on a tent in Rafah, 2024
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“Thank you students for Columbia”, painted on a tent in Rafah, 2024Photo: Haitham Imad · Public domain

Born in Rafah

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Rafah, in Gaza

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7 towns and villages · 52 faces

Gaza

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Subdistrict borders (1945) by Carlos HaGadol, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Elsewhere in Gaza

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