Battle of Rafah explained

The Battle of Rafah primarily refers to any of the military engagements fought in and around Rafah, today in the Gaza Strip:

Battles

• Battle of Raphia (720 BC), a battle between Pharonic Egypt and Assyria, at Rafah, during the reign of Pharaoh Osorkon IV
• Battle of Raphia (217 BC), a battle between the Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire, near Rafah
• Battle of Rafa, a World War I battle in 1917
• Battle of Rafah (1948) in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• Battle of Rafah (2009), part of the Palestinian political violence
• Rafah offensive (2024), part of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war

Other uses

• The Battle of Raphia, 217 B.C., a boardgame based on the 217 BCE battle

See also

• • • • • • Raphia (disambiguation)
• Rafah (disambiguation)
• Rafa (disambiguation)