Now, there was no one to protect our homes, you see. The vehicle drove for hours until it finally stopped in Akka, near Haifa, where Daoud and the other men were locked up in the former British prison fortress. After a few weeks, the men were driven to Atlit, an old British Mandate detention camp, now turned into a labor camp, on the coast south of Haifa, where they remained prisoners for almost a year.
