RAFAH CAMP
Humanitarian Camps
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.
Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedRafah refugee camp was established in 1949 in southern Gaza near the Egyptian border.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 125,304 · Historical registered population: 125,304 · Schools in archived record: 15 schools in 11 buildings
- What help is neededIt reports an original population of 41,000 and a historical registered population of 125,304, alongside overcrowding, unemployment, housing shortages and inadequate water.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2021-05-19 and last verified 2026-09-19.
Situation
Rafah refugee camp was established in 1949 in southern Gaza near the Egyptian border. The recovered WorldsAid archive records that many residents later moved into the adjoining Tel El-Sultan housing project, making the camp difficult to distinguish from Rafah city. It reports an original population of 41,000 and a historical registered population of 125,304, alongside overcrowding, unemployment, housing shortages and inadequate water. These figures describe the archived 2021 record and should not be read as a current population assessment.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 2 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 8 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 125,304 retained at 2026-09-19
- Historical registered population
- 125,304 retained at 2026-09-19
- Schools in archived record
- 15 schools in 11 buildings retained at 2026-09-19
- Food distribution centres
- 2 retained at 2026-09-19
- Health centres
- 2 in camp and 3 nearby retained at 2026-09-19
- Relief and social services offices
- 2 retained at 2026-09-19
- Maintenance and sanitation offices
- 1 retained at 2026-09-19
- Water quality in archived record
- 90% described as unfit for human consumption retained at 2026-09-19
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
This page renders the last verified WorldsAid cache directly in HTML. It does not treat generated summaries as primary evidence.
Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
SHA-256 ae00f4f707e5ef899cd8bca07b7edb66a005a33d672f2180518b0cbfa704e1f1