Bataniye

Bataniye is the Arabic synonym for blanket and because of great usage it was in current use among POWs. In some camping places each POW had 2-3 blankets which were used as both carpet and blanket. In the freezing winter nights when there were no heater in camps and the POWs’ bodies ached all over because of sleeping on the cold concrete floor, those blankets were the only cloth of POWs.