and creation of the israeli regime, both sides came to realize the power of cinema in getting their messages across. israeli regime used cinema to show the territory it had occupied as heaven on earth in order to entice jews from all over the world to migrate to occupied territories. on the other hand, although belatedly, palestinians also learn to use the power of media and cinema to make their voice heard across the world. was new battlefield for both sides.

let's talk about uh, demona, many people say, well nobody knows, you see i blush, you say demona and i blush, we're not supposed to talk about demona, but go ahead, because it's the book. it's a taboo, it's a secret. nagev desert, south of israel. this mysterious complex away from the public eye, employs thousands of people, all sworn to secrecy. when its existence was discovered, israel said it was textile factory, never admitting its true purpose, making polutoneum for atomic bombs. we need answers and we go to

meet one of the few people in israel that knows what is going on inside demona, we are dealing with this element of weapons of miss destruction meaning nuclear chemical and biological, we're the only ngo dealing with this right now. israel, when you believe that this are the weapons that keeps you safe, when this is the common belief, then the question raised, are we the next country to use them? israel is nuclear armed state, chemical armed state and biological armed state. nuclear weapon is not a weapon that aimed at an army, it's a weapon that destroys a city. are we willing to destroy any city in the middle east? mothers, children, fathers, citizens, not soldiers. we want to know more

about the most secretive nuclear program in the world, just transmitted at the request of the is the israeli nuclear plant of demona poisoning and threatening the lives of millions throughout the middle east. from tel aviv we go south. our destination, dimona. it's too far, you know, can you get closer please? approaching the nuclear plant is a في high risk, the highway spices through the heat and sand of the negev desert. a barbed wire fence edges the road. signs posted every few hundred meters wand. drivers not to stop

their vehicles under any circumstances. they have cameras they will see. this is a military zone. it says don't go off in the road, military zone, finally we can have a distant look at one of the world's most secret facilities, an exclusive view of secret israel is hiding since the 1960s. demona nuclear palms, that's the gate go inside, this is the gate to the monar, yes, only few people in the world can say they know each corner of the demona nuclear plant, and all of them are swart. to secrecy, but

there is someone that knows exactly how the building looks like, it was secret competition with the - design of the civic center of new atomic research center that was to be built in dimona in the south part of of israel, for security reasons we couldn't call it a center of research was called a civic center in the magic because you could, in the 60s it wasn't such a big news to have textile uh factory in demona, so if you built something large in demona, you could very easily say, you see this is textile factory, only that this textile factory had dome and

wasn't a typical of of textile things, but it wasn't seen from the road, it was kind of of... of an agreed, agreed quietness, i have the photograph, while the project was being built, not when it was occupied, then at that time the security eye was not that strong, so i took the photographs, later, later, many years afterwards, i all of sudden got several several photos from an unknown source. but with the stamp of the of the censorship, so i understood that somebody from the from the site sent me photos that was taken that were taken there, there's a sign that i can open

my my my small portfolio and and make it public. this is the courtyard of the of the main building from the other. side looking towards the towards the entrance, you see the entrance is here and this is from looking from other side and the same the same building, this is the detail of the stairs leading from the to the roof, you can have a roof cover as you see here, you can go up up to the roof under the cover kind of how many years you kept these photos secret, how many years this 60 building? did you went inside? haven't seen my own, my own project since then, i could go in all these years. this

message is transmitted at the request of the united states. when president kennedy took office, he knew from a cia secret report that israel was developed. at the beginning of january 1961, kennedy met the israeli ambassador in washington and expressed that the usa wanted to inspect demona to be sure about its purposes. israel accepted, but under one condition, if it was done a secret basis. for five months, the visit of the american inspectors to demona nuclear plant was postponed several times by israel. finally, an ultimatum from usa was accepted to american scientists were allowed to visit

demona in may 1961. israel imposed several rules on the american inspectors. they were not allowed to take any pictures or issues. any comments about dimona. when the inspectors finally entered the plants, they were misled. they were shown a fake control room on the ground floor. 12th of january 1961, the aim at the building built in the negev was clear. in a high-level meeting between president isenhower and his staff. the us secretary of defense informs the president that based on intelligence findings israel was lying and demona was not for peaceful purposes. they were unaware of the

six floors below where the plutonium was made. in search of answers we travel to berlin in germany. here we are going to meet zanter hall. she is an expert in nuclear weapons. and the director of international positions for the prevention of nuclear war. zanter hall is also the coordinator of the european parliament commission against nuclear proliferation. the israel atomic energy commissioncy is one of the most secret institutions in the world. it's responsible for demona, its chairman is netanyahu, but it's not even officially recognized as existing. all the other nuclear plants in the world are monitored by the atomic energy

agency, but not the ones in israel, so we think it it's about time that demona was also monitored. the one thing that needs to happen is that an independent body like the iaea would go into demona and find out what is going on there, what is the state of the substance of the build? is the containment of the nuclear reactor still intact? what are they doing about cooling, where is the nuclear waste being stored, how is it being stored? and all these questions, they need to be answered. we need some transparency. israel has not ratified the non-proliferation treaty. a way of invoiding inspections its nuclear sites. why do you think that the

international community behaves with israel with this special way? first of all, we are not obliged, we are not part of the treaties, we never signed the treaties, so we don't oblige, we never said we want, that's one thing, second thing is the us, and the third thing is the holocaust, how guilt? do you see germany? germany sold just the submarines. the us, they let us steal uranium. you go to the un, to the npt, it's a non-proviferation treaty, and you hear the us delegation reading their statements and when they talk about israel, you see paragraphs that you know from the language was written by israelis. so israel has a special treatment. yes, we're a special case. yoshi melman is

known as an investigative journalist specialized in intelligence and strategic affairs. he was described by wikileaks as an information meal who has exchanged tips with the mossack, but in 2009, melman uncovered a terrible secret about demona. workers at the nuclear reactor facility were made to volunteer to drink uranium in 1998 as part of an experiment, the workers themselves already cannot say anything, they have so many so many contracts saying that they cannot say, the question is the family, so usually in order for them to get compensation, the families also have to say they will not sue, they will not say, they will not speak to the media and so on, so we know only when they have settlements, when the cold say settlement, that they give some money, but we

don't know how much usually and we don't know how many and we don't know what conditions, and also the doctors are only doctors that work with the commission, mean if you only have nuclear reactor that is making energy like chnob or fukushima, that's just one thing, you can you have lots of possibilities for accidents, but if you got added to that, you've got uranium enrichment, you've got plutonium reprocessing and you have actually the making of the warheads, then you have you know many more possibilities, have there already been accidents, there's been some rumors and speculation that in 1966 there was a criticality accidents at demona, we don't know what's been happening in that plant, and actually it seems that there's probably more secrecy than there was in the soviet union, because quite quickly after the chernoble accident was actually said that there had been the accident, so i think israel is more

better to compare on the level of secrecy about a nuclear program with perhaps north korea, because we know nothing about their program either, we do know that they have one, and at least north korea is making claims that it has nuclear weapons, whereas israel is pretending that it doesn't, so i'm not trying to say that there will be worse or better. um, but there are many more possibilities, so the risk is definitely higher. our next stop in search of our... about the israeli nuclear program and its secrets is a palestinian village. dahria, very close to demona, and a military field where israel might be burying nuclear waste from demona. in daria, a palestinian doctor

struggles to keep demona's victims alive. هلا نحن كنا ملاحظين انه في امراض تاتينا غريبه جدا بنوعيات مختلفه فاستفزنا على اساس انه نعمل دراسات للوضع في منطقه الجنوب خصوصا لكن ما كنا نعرف انه في شيء اسمه اشاعات فعملنا فحوصات خاصه في مناطق متعدده في جنوب الضفه فوجدنا انه يوجد هناك اشعاعات مش موجوده في الطبيعه الا في حاله صفر مثل ماده اساسيوم هذه ماده لا تنتج الا في حرب نووييه او مداخل نوويهum is not present nature and can only be found in areas

where a nuclear disaster or test takes place we know how works um on the body uh because of chernoble and fukushima, they've both of those accidents show showed us lot of about how sesium actually affects human health and that there are claims uh that uh that there has been a study that has found sesium in the region and sesium is an indication that some something has happened with the nuclear activity it uh most... likely would be, depending on the amount of it, would would be from nuclear accident, or it could be from leaking radioactive waste. in some areas of palestine, the presence of sesium is at the same levels as in chernobil or fukishima,

places where the worst nuclear accidents took place. it's um it's a radioactive isotope, it has a half life of 30.2 years and um it acts like a potassium or or like salt, it's water soluble so it can spread very quickly through the body and it tends to concentrate then in muscle tissue, and you also have muscles in certain organs like heart and stomach and intestines, so that that's where off' season will end up and at that point it starts then to mutate the cells within that those muscles and you end up with cancer of the colon, cancer of the stomach of the lungs sometimes and it can lead to heart disruption في امراض بدات تظهر مثل تساقط الشعر العقم سرطانات

متعدده سرطان قاع الجمجمه سرطان عيون سرطان غده دررقيه سرطان و الموابيض سرطان الرحم الكبد الرئه الدم العظام سرطانات متنوعه عن النفايات النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع وين تدفن تدفن الضفه الغربيه لانه احنا بعتبرونا مكب نفايات لهم يعني يعني احنا حقل تجارب للاسرائيليين there are many rumors about where they bury the waist. but my and not just my estimations are that all the materials are buried in the area surrounding uh the reactor and the reason is that these materials are secret, they don't want people to go and take land samples or go with the geiger. the geiga

counter is an electronic device that measures the level of radioactivity. these devices are allowed for use everywhere in the world, it is sold everywhere, even online, but not in israel. despite claiming to be democratic, israelis cannot buy a giga counter inside israel. one of the major problems that we have, again it goes back to the secrecy problem, is that we can't even measure the amount of radiation in the area because that's not allowed, and the israeli law even says that if you take a giiga counter into the area around demona and measure the radioactivity, you could be then sentenced to 15 years in pr prison, so nobody's going to do that, i know people even thought about doing it, but they they they didn't. it's certainly very risky to try to do any research on this at all, which is why number

one problem is to get rid of the secrecy. what is the security of israel and why the security of israel is so different than the security of the people that live in israel? and we hear rumors about buildings with the levels of cancer. is unbelievable, and when we wanted to ask doctors, we also didn't get any answers and one of funny or sad answer we got was that we cannot measure the amount of cancer, radiation related cancer in israel, because we had so many people coming from chernobil, from kiev, and that changed the numbers, so that was one answer we got, and of course this is: كانوا يجيوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل 87 يجواا وياكلوا ويشربوا واحنا

نروح عندهم هلا بتعرف صار في علاقات انسانيه بينا فتسال عن فلان وين فلان يقول لك مات طب ليش مات شو سبب موته يقول لك مصاب بالسرطان طيب من وين ما يحكي people are not rich most of them this is if rich people, they wouldn't live next to a reactor, i guess, they wouldn't be depending on this reactor for the livelihood. few years ago they all got iodine peels that were very old iodine pills and that was it, and they're not asking, and that's the problem, that they are more to talk about it. طيب واللي ساكن في المناطق الاسرائيليه طيب اللي ساكنين في المستوطنات في عندهم اصابات بس انا اتحدى اذا في واحد يجرا انه يتكلم، لانه بياخذوا 7000 شيكل مزاعه. but there are more cases around palestine, in a small village lost in al khalil hills, there

are other victims, one of them has already died, his son fears the consequences are telling his father's story, and only accepts to talk if we protect his identity, uh, are we? قبل ما يمرض بالتحديد اشتغل في مفاعل ديمونا بالضبط في نفس المكان المفاعل كان يشتغل ببير او بمنطقه تحت الارض كان يعمل على ترميم بعض الشقوق الموجوده بالمكان ايه لما كان يروح على شغله كان يدخل بسياره هي سياره مسكره ممنوع يشوف لبرا او المكان اللي هو رايح لاله كان يشتغل بدون اي نوع من انواع ال اجراءات الوقايه على عكس تماما ننفس الزلمه اللي كان يجيب له الاكل او الشرب كان يكون متخذ كافه الاجراءات الاحتياطيه او الوقائيه ضد ال المخاطر اللي ممكن يتعرض لها اشتغل حوالي ثلاث شهور بالمفاعل

لما انهى الشغل مباشره بلشت تظهر عليه اعراض المرض كان يقح ما يقدر يتنفس كان يعني بالنهايه اخر شيء على الاكسجين كان عايش وكان يتساقط شعره واعراض كثيره منها يعني بالنهايه الله توفاه بال 2000 ابوي برضه بعمر صغير مات يعني تقريبا مات ب 46 سنه. hospital is clear. this former demona employees suffered from cancer. officially nobody claims that demona is the cause. this and many other cases come from the same. طبعا في حالات اخرى موجوده بنفس القريه. توفوا في منهم اطفال صغار يعني تتجاوز اعمارهم العشر سنوات في نساء كبيره بالعمر ممكن 50 سنه في حالات مصابين بالمرض حتى الان

موجودين يعني وخصوصا انه هي المنطقه قريبه جدا لديمونا والاصابه بهالمرض كانت بالسنوات الاخيره يعني من بعد بناء مفائع الديمونا ومن بعد ما بلش الشغل فيه. israeli nuclear program is surrounded by novel atmosphere. this man is arnold milscher, famous hollywood producer behind films like pretty woman, club of fighters or la confidential. he was also good friends with shimon perres and benjamin netanyahu. recently, revealed his double life, during all these years, he worked as moçad agent, helping israel to buy technology

needed to make nuclear weapon. under a hollywood producer cover, he was actually kind of godfather of israel's nuclear program. news in brief on press tv israely strikes target alborek school killing about 50 people. over dozen civilians also lost their lives as a regime shell several buildings of shifa hospital complex, israeli snipers killed one person and injured 20 others in alpost hospital, there open fire on his intensive care unit. the senior hamas official says, muslim and arab states need to take practical action against israel. osama hamdan says it is quote, unacceptable for arab states to have relations with israel. he called on those countries to stop the normalization process with the israeli regime.