Format : Hardcover Product Description: Rafah,a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip , is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys . The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men.On the border with Egypt , swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble .Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in the bitterest of conflicts.