According to the Geneva-based ICRC archives and witness testimonies, the settler state of Israel maintained between 1948 – 1955 forced labour camps to strengthen the Israeli economy.

Among others, the survivors of the Tantura massacre had been forced to worke in those camps.

Based on the work of

Ilan Pappe,

‘The ethnic cleansing of Palestine’

Other sources:

On Israel’s little-known concentration and labor camps in 1948-1955

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2014.43.4.11