[4] Although the camp had no fence, escape was impossible due to its location, with a road heavily trafficked by Axis troops on one side and the desert on the other.

Sick and injured laborers were transported back to Tripoli after being evaluated by the Italian military doctor, who often turned a blind eye to self-injury and feigned skin disease.

[1] The camp was frequently bombed by the British Royal Air Force in late October 1942, and Hadad ordered his men to dig trenches to protect themselves.

With the exceptions of Hadad and a few other Jews who could fit in the doctor's military vehicle alongside all the remaining food, the freed prisoners had to trek through the Libyan Desert, across Cyrenaica, Syrtica, and Tripolitania on their own, in order to reach the city.

[2][3] The freed prisoners reached Tripoli in mid-November to find their community in chaos, with the Jewish Quarter being frequently bombed by Allied forces as the Axis retreated through it.