He also wanted to let people escape from the transit camp, but failed.
One of its functions was as a transit camp for political prisoners.
During the war, it was also used as a transit camp for the Holocaust.
People were to stay in the transit camp until land became available.
She said the police first took the family to a transit camp for the homeless, then to the tent.
Upon arrival he is brought to live in a ma'abara, or transit camp.
Approximately 7,600 inmates were put in a new central transit camp within the city for their further selection.
Those people should not be kept in transit camps if it is possible to take them back to their home.
Plans to close this transit camp last week were postponed.
"You will wait for the transport in the transit camp," she said.