Jadu, Libya

Jadu or Gado (/ˈdʒɑːduː/ JAH-doo; Arabic: جادو, romanized: Jādū; Berber languages: Fessatu; Italian: Giado) is a mountain town in western Libya (Tripolitania), formerly in the Jabal al Gharbi District.

Jadu is located in the Nafusa Mountains,[2] twenty-five kilometers southwest of Tarmeisa (طرميسة, Ţarmīşah).

[3] Jadu was formerly the capital of the Nafusa Mountains District.

[4] In 1942, about 2,600 Jews [5] and other people, who were considered undesirables by Italians, were rounded up throughout Libya and sent to the Giado camp.

[8] In April 2020, local Amazigh forces were bombed at the end of the Second Libyan Civil War.

Giado concentration camp during its operation