Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan () is one of eight

Palestinian refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ( ...

in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the

Rafah Governorate The Rafah Governorate () is a Governorates of Palestine, Governorate of Palestine in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or ''muhfaza'' is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt. According to the Palest ...

just north of

Rafah Rafah ( ) is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889. Due to the Gaza war, about 1.4 million people from Gaza C ...

city and Rafah Camp. It was established mainly to absorb refugees repatriated from

Canada Camp Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Sinai near Rafah, formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF I), which formerly had ...

. UNRWA does not make a distinction between Rafah Camp and Tall as-Sultan.UNRWA Rafah refugee camp profile
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2006 mid-year estimate for Tall as-Sultan is 24,418. The camp was established in 1989, for Palestinians living in Kanda camp in Egyptian Rafa. On 26 May 2024, an Israeli airstrike in the camp killed at least 50 people, most of whom were women and children. On 15 June 2024, eight Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. Their

Namer Namer (, ; meaning "leopard," and also a syllabic abbreviation of "Nagmash" (APC) and "Merkava") is an Israeli armoured personnel carrier based on a Merkava#Merkava Mark IV, Merkava Mark IV tank chassis. Namer was developed by and is being asse ...

armored personnel carrier and an armored D9 bulldozer were destroyed. On 16 October 2024, Hamas leader

Yahya Sinwar Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (; 29 October 1962 – 16 October 2024) was a Palestinian militant and politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from August 2024, and as the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from February ...

was

killed Killing, Killings, or The Killing may refer to: Types of killing *-cide, a suffix that refers to types of killing (see List of types of killing), such as: ** Homicide, one human killing another *** Murder, unlawful killing of another human without ...

in the camp by Israeli forces. On 27 May 2025, at least three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to get aid from the

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