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Tel al-Sultan
Refugee Camp
Arabic transcription(s)
• Arabic	معسكر تل السلطان
• Latin	Tall as Sultan Camp; Tel es-Sultan (official) Tel Al-Sultan Camp (unofficial)
Tel al-SultanLocation of Tel al-Sultan within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°18′32.32″N 34°14′35.17″E / 31.3089778°N 34.2431028°E / 31.3089778; 34.2431028
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Rafah
Government
• Type	Refugee Camp
Population
• Total	24,418

Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan (Arabic: تل السلطان) is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate just north of Rafah city and Rafah Camp. It was established mainly to absorb refugees repatriated from Canada Camp.

UNRWA does not make a distinction between Rafah Camp and Tall as-Sultan. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 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 armored personnel carrier and an armored D9 bulldozer were destroyed. On 16 October 2024, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in the camp by Israeli forces.

References

1. ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Rafah Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
2. OCHA map Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ UNRWA Rafah refugee camp profile
4. Oroub El-Abed, Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948, IDRC, 2009, pages 200-201
5. "Israeli air strike kills dozens in Rafah's Tel Al-Sultan neighbourhood designated for displaced people – ABC News". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
6. "Israel strikes Rafah as pressure mounts over war in Gaza". CNN. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
7. Godin, Jake (17 October 2024). "Geolocating Site Where Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Was Killed". Bellingcat. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

v t e Rafah Governorate
Cities	Rafah
Municipalities	al-Bayuk Shokat as-Sufi
Village councils	al-Mawasi Al Qarya as Suwaydiya
Refugee camps	Rafah camp Tel al-Sultan

v t e Palestine refugee camps locations and populations as of 2015
Gaza Strip 518,000 UNRWA refugees  West Bank 188,150 UNRWA refugees  Syria 319,958 UNRWA refugees  Lebanon 188,850 UNRWA refugees  Jordan 355,500 UNRWA refugees Al-Shati (Beach camp) 87,000 Bureij 34,000 Deir al-Balah 21,000 Jabalia 110,000 Khan Yunis 72,000 Maghazi 24,000 Nuseirat 66,000 Rafah 104,000 Canada closed Aqabat Jaber 6,400 Ein as-Sultan 1,900 Far'a 7,600 Fawwar 8,000 Jalazone 11,000 Qalandia 11,000 Am'ari 10,500 Deir 'Ammar 2,400 Dheisheh 13,000 Aida 4,700 Al-Arroub 10,400 Askar 15,900 Balata 23,600 'Azza (Beit Jibrin) 1,000 Ein Beit al-Ma' (Camp No. 1) 6,750 Tulkarm 18,000 Nur Shams 9,000 Jenin 16,000 Shu'fat 11,000 Silwad Birzeit Sabinah 22,600 Khan al-Shih 20,000 Nayrab 20,500 Homs 22,000 Jaramana 18,658 Daraa 10,000 Hama 8,000 Khan Danoun 10,000 Qabr Essit 23,700 Unofficial camps Ein Al-Tal 6,000 Latakia 10,000 Yarmouk 148,500 Bourj el-Barajneh 17,945 Ain al-Hilweh 54,116 El Buss 11,254 Nahr al-Bared 5,857 Shatila 9,842 Wavel 8,806 Mar Elias 662 Mieh Mieh 5,250 Beddawi 16,500 Burj el-Shamali 22,789 Dbayeh 4,351 Rashidieh 31,478 Former camps Tel al-Zaatar  ? Nabatieh  ? Zarqa 20,000 Jabal el-Hussein 29,000 Amman New (Wihdat) 51,500 Souf 20,000 Baqa'a 104,000 Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti camp) 22,000 Irbid 25,000 Jerash 24,000 Marka 53,000 Talbieh 8,000 Al-Hassan  ? Madaba  ? Sokhna  ?
References "Camp Profiles". unrwa.org. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

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