press tv's news and brief: 17 palestinians have been killed in the latest is rainy air strikes on gaza, five lost their lives in a strike a residential building in hans. other 12 were killed in an airid near alshifa hospital in gaza city. the overall death toll in gaza tops 24, 760. israel confirms new military losses and clashes with palestinian resistance fighters in the gaza strip. the military says a trooper died of wounds he sustained in battle in southern gaza on wednesday. it says 191 soldiers have so far been killed in the ground invasion of gaza. of

mexico and chile have referred israel's war on gaza to the international criminal court, they've expressed concern over escalating violence against palestinian civilians, especially children, that comes a week after. south africa also presented a case to the international court of justice over israel's genocide in gaza. the emmy army says it is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden warning against any new aggression on the arab country. over the past week there has been a series of us led strikes. on yemen over what washington described as threats against shipping in the red sea. and people have ralled in yemen's northern city of sauda to voice support for palestinians in the wake of israel's genocidal war on gaza. the demonstrators chanted slogans against the us for supporting israel and launching strikes on yemen. they also slammed washington's redesignation of unsarla movement as a terrorist group.

of i am edward said. i was born in 1935 into a christian family. most of my family left jerusalem because they had to. and it was an

area that fell to the hagana in i think february of 1948. the idea of being a fugitive is just like being affected by leprosy. all palestinians feel the same sense of exile. the charge which created outrage when it was first raised, i think um, they tried to dub and relace this thing, but you see, unfortunately, i think there is something in it. sofi. the writing of orientalism was actually shaped by his engagement with the question of palestine. our homeland was lost in history and right in front of people's eyes.

let's talk about uh demona, many people say, well nobody knows, you say i blush, you say demona and i blush, we're not supposed to talk about demona, but go ahead, because it's a tabu, it's a tabu, 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 plutonium for atomic bombs, we need answers and we go to meet one

the few people in israel. that knows what is going on inside demona, we are dealing with this element of weapons of mess destruction, meaning nuclear chemical and biological, we're the only ngo dealing with this right now in 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 arm. 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. the program in the world just transmitted at the request of the is the israeli nuclear plant to demona poisoning and threatening the lives of millions throughout the middle east from tel avi we go south our destination demona but it's too far you know can you get closer please? approaching the nuclear plant is a high risk, the highway splices through the heat and sand of the negev desert, a barbed wire fence edges the road, signs posted every few hundred meters warn 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 up the road. finally we can have a distant look at one of the world's most secret facilities, an exclusive view of the secret israel is hiding since the 1960s, demona nuclear palms, that's the gate we go inside, this is the gate to the monar, yes? only few people in the world can say they know each corner of demona nuclear plant, and all of them are sworn to secrecy, but there is someone that knows

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

textile factory had a dome and wasn't 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 a 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 then 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 hooking from other side at 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 cover, there is kind of how many years you kept this photos you in secret, how many years this 60 building, they 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 of president kennedy took office, he knew from a cia secret report that israel was developing nuclear program in the naget. 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 themona nuclear plant was postponed several times by israel. finally, an ultimatum. from usa was accepted. two 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 issue any comments about dimona. when the inspectors finally entered the plant, they were misled. they were... own 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 eisenhouer 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 traveled to berlin in germany. here we are going to meet zantha hall. she is an expert in nuclear weapons. 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. and the israel uh atomic energy commissioncy is one of the most secret institutions in the world. it's responsible for demona. it's 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 building. is the containment of the nuclear reactor still intact, what are they doing about cooling, um, 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 invoiting inspections to its nuclear sites. why do you think that the

international community behaves with israel in 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 won't, that's one thing, second thing is the us and the third thing is the holocaust, how guilt, do you see germany, germany sold us the submarines, the us, they let us still uranium, you go to the un, to the npt, to the non-proliveration 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 mule 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 themself. 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, uh, so we know only when they have settlements, when the calls 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... with the commission, i mean, if you only have nuclear reactor that is making energy like charnoble 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 accident 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 chenal accident, it was actually said that there had been the accident, so i think israel is more better to compare on the level

of secrecy about nuclear program with perhaps north korea, because we 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 many more possibilities, so the risk is definitely higher. our next stop in search of answers. about the israeli nuclear program and its secrets is a palestinian village. darria, 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 احنا 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 اشعاعات فعملنا فحوصات خاصه في مناطق متعدده في جنوب الضفه فوجدنا انه يوجد هناك اشاعات. مش موجوده في الطبيعه الا في حاله صفر مثل ماده السيزيوم هذه ماده لا تنتج الا في حرب نوويه او مدافن نوويه. cesium is not present nature and can only be found in areas where a nuclear disaster or test takes

place. we know how sesium works um on the body uh because of chernobil and fukushima. they've both of those accidents show showed us lot of about how sesium actually affects human. in health and that there are claims uh that uh that there has been a study that has found cesium in the region and sium is an indication that some something has happened with nuclear activity, it 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 chernobyl or fukushima,

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 a... 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 often season will end up, and at that point it starts then to mutate the cells within the those muscles and you end up with cancer of the colon, cancer of the stomach of the lungs sometimes? في امراض بدات تظهر مثل تصاقط الشعر العقم سرطانات متعدده سرطان قاع الجمجمه سرطان

عيون سرطان غده درقيه سرطان المابيض سرطان الرحم الكبد الرئه الدم العظام سرطانات المتنوعه عن النفايات النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع. ايه وين تدفن تدفن في الضفه الغربيه لانه احنا بيعتبرونا مكب نفايات لهم يعني يعني نحن حقل تجارب للاسرائيليين. there are many rumors about where they bury the the waste, 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 giger 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, israel is cannot buy a giga counter inside israel. one 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 geiger counter into the area around demona and measure the radioactivity, you could be then sentenced to 15 years in prisons. 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 where 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 a cancer radiation related cancer in israel because we had so many people coming from chernobyl from kiev and that changed the numbers so that was one answer we got and of course this is not a كانوا يجوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل ال 87 يجوا وياكلوا ويشربوا واحنا نروح عندهم هلا ب صار في

علاقات انسانيه بينا فتسال عن فلان وين فلان يقول لك مات طيب ليش مات شو سبب موته يقول لك مصاب بالسرطان طيب من وين ما يحكيش people in timona are not rich most of them this is if they were rich people they wouldn't live next to a reactor guess they wouldn't be depending on this reactor for the livelihood few years ago they all got iodine pills that were very old iodine pills and that was it and

'one of them has already died, his son fears the consequences of telling his father's story, and only accepts to talk if we protect his identity. ابوي 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. لما كان يروح على شغله كان يدخل بسياره هي السياره مسكره ممنوع يشوف البرا او المكان اللي هو رايح لاله كان يشتغل بدون اي نوع من انواع اجراءات الوقايه على العكس تماما نفس الزلمه اللي كان يجيب له الاكل او الشرب كان يكون متخذ كافه الاجراءات الاحتياطيه او الوقائيه ضد المخاطر اللي ممكن نتعرض لها اشتغل حوالي ثلاث س

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 توفاء بال 2006 ابوي برضه بعمر صغير مات يعني تقريبا مات 46 سنه from a jordanian hospital is clear this former demona employee suffered from. طبعا في حالات اخرى موجوده بنفس القريه يعني توفوا في منهم اطفال صغار يعني تجاوز 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 arnon milcher. famous hollywood producer behind films like pretty woman, club of fighters or la confidential. he was also good friends with shimon peris and benjamin netanyahu. recently he revealed his double life. during all these years he worked as a mossard agent, helping israel to buy

technology needed to make nuclear weapons. under a hollywood producer cover, he was actually kind of godfather of israel's nuclear program. press tv zos and reef 17 palestinians have been killed in the latest israeli ear strikes on gaza, five lost their lives in a strike a residential building in hanjunes, the other 12 were killed. an area near al-shifa hospital in gaza city, the overall death toll in gaza tops 24,760. israel confirms new military losses and clashes with palestinian resistance fighters in the gaza strip. the military says a trooper died of wounds he sustained in battle in southern gaza on wednesday. it says 191 soldiers have so far been killed in the ground invasion of gaza.