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Abu Zabaal Prison, Cairo, Egypt
The Abu Zabaal Prison (السجن بابوزعبل القاهرة، مصر, בית סוהר אבו זעבל, קהיר, מצרים) in Cairo, Egypt.
Description
Following the outbreak of the Six Day War in 1967, hundreds of Egyptian Jews with Egyptian nationality were rounded up and imprisoned at Abu Zabaal.
In cramped quarters and unsanitary conditions, the prisoners were help for three years before being released in 1970 thanks to the efforts of Spain and France.
Cairo, Egypt
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Sources
See: http://www.hsje.org/SecondExodus/Abu_Zaabal/interneeabuzaabal.html for a list of people imprisoned.