History
The location of the camp was accidentally discovered by Israeli historian Gad Kroizer, who found a 70-year old map drawn by a government architect while researching old British police buildings. On the map were 62 British police compounds in Palestine in the late 1930s and early 1940s where Arab and Jewish militants against the British occupation were interrogated. One camp, "Meretz", did not appear on any modern Israeli maps. In 2004, Kroizer published an article in an academic journal, mentioning the prison location in a footnote. Some days later he received a phone call from Israel's military censor asking why the article had not been submitted for inspection. According to The Guardian, the facility "had been airbrushed from Israeli aerial photographs and purged from modern maps."
Camp 1391 is situated in a Tegart fort on route 574 between kibbutz Barkai and kibbutz Ma'anit in northern Israel It is operated by the Israel Defense Force Intelligence Corps, rather than by Shin Bet. HaMoked, a major Israeli human rights organization, has petitioned the High Court of Justice to close the facility down.
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