Rafiah Yam

Rafiah Yam

Rafiah Yam was an Israeli settlement, originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah.

Residents of the settlement worked mainly in agriculture. Being one of the few non-Orthodox settlements, the community children were bused each day to school in the nearby Eshkol region outside the Gaza Strip.

The 30 families, including at least 150 people, of Rafiah Yam were forcibly evicted from their homes by the IDF and Israeli Police as part of the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of August 2005. Their houses and other structures were destroyed and the area was later transferred to the Palestinians.

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