No one could have expected Rafah would receive more than 1,500,000 displaced people from other cities in the Gaza Strip at the end of 2023. The Municipality of Rafah has carried out thousands of tasks to rescue and evacuate the wounded, bury the martyrs, reopen the streets, remove rubble, and organize asylum centers.
The population density in Rafah before the recent Israeli aggression was considered one of the highest in the world. The number of workers in the Rafah municipality is only 200 people providing services to one and a half million people.