Israel has wiped the city of Rafah off the map
This is what Rafah looks like today
Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media
Apr 05, 2025
The city of Rafah was built over 3,300 years ago. The first recorded mention of it was in 1303 BC.
It was the first stop on Pharoah Shoshenq 1’s campaign to the Levant in 925 BC.
It was depicted on the Map of Madaba mosaic in the early Byzantine Church of St George in Jordan.
It was documented by Greek geographer Strabo in his work Geographica which was first published in 7 BC.
Rafah had a long and beautiful history that would be loved by anyone with a connection to the land, that would be appreciated by any thinking, feeling human being.
Rafah had a population of 171,889, and as recently as February, 1.4 million Palestinians were sheltering there. It was the “safe zone” near the Egyptian border that civilians were ordered to flee to.
The city of Rafah is no more. It has been reduced to rubble by a settler-colony established just 77 years ago. All of the historical buildings, the archaeological sites, the museums, the modern homes, the civilian infrastructure, the shops, cafes, restaurants, hospitals, schools, and universities, all the beautiful places that contained so many memories are all gone. Nothing seems to have been spared, not the Roman coins, not the Byzantine ceramics, not the granite pillars of ancient temples…
Israel has seized the ruins of Rafah, and ordered every survivor out, to create a “security zone”. The name for that process is ethnic cleansing. Israel is demolishing the few buildings that somehow remain standing after the bombardment. The goal is to leave Gaza no more habitable than the deserts of Mars and claim the survivors voluntarily left. The rebuilding effort would be almost equivalent to terraforming, such would be the effort required.
Remember when we said “all eyes on Rafah”? Well, we looked away and Israel did what Israel has always wanted to do. And if you think this apocalyptic destruction was a reaction to October 7th, just know that back in 1971, then-General Ariel Sharon destroyed 500 Palestinian houses in refugee camps, displacing 4,000 Palestinians to create patrol roads for the Israeli military. Rafah, like everywhere in Gaza, has known only Israeli brutality for decades.
Rafah has been destroyed so thoroughly that they might as well have used a nuclear bomb, the only difference being the colonisers don’t feel the effects of radiation. I suspect if there was such a thing as radiation-free nukes, Israel would have used them many times over by now, and our disgusting leaders would simply have said Israel has a right to defend itself.
Remember when those disgusting podcasters were fantasising about pushing a button to erase all Palestinians? Those podcasters were not extreme outliers, they were typical Zionists, a fact they themselves admitted. Most Zionists, an overwhelming majority, would hit that button in a heartbeat. Most Zionists will be delighted that Rafah is gone.
We are talking about people who have been gloating on social media, gleeful that the IDF just took out the grandson of a Hamas leader - that grandson was two years old. What a truly impressive victory that must have been for the IDF. I can only imagine it was a harrowing battle for the TikTok warriors…
Israel has wiped the city of Rafah off the map