Battle of Rafah
Appearance
The Battle of Rafah primarily refers to any of the military engagements fought in and around Rafah, today in the Gaza Strip:
Battles
[edit]- 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 (1949), in context of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Battle of Rafah (2009), part of internal Palestinian conflict between Hamas and Jund Ansar Allah
- Rafah offensive (2024), part of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war
Other uses
[edit]- The Battle of Raphia, 217 B.C., a boardgame based on the 217 BCE battle
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Battle of Rafa
- All pages with titles containing Battle of Rafah
- All pages with titles containing Battle of Rafa
- All pages with titles containing Rafah Battle
- All pages with titles containing Rafa Battle
- Raphia (disambiguation)
- Rafah (disambiguation)
- Rafa (disambiguation)