keeping you up to date with world news every half hour on press tv. user brief this hour, israel carries out another terror attack in the syrian capital, damascus, assassinating number of people, including five iranian. military advisers, the attack targeted a three-story residential building in the city's mesa neighborhood, which houses several diplomatic missions. the death toll from israeli onslot on the gaza strip is nearing 25,000 as a regime continues with its deadly carpet bombing campaign. according to new report published by an independent human rights watch, israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers. israeli of

forces have carried out fresh raids on two refugee camps in the occupied west bank abducting several palestinians. one of the camps is near al-quds and the other one is located in northern west bank. israel has intensified this rates and arrests across much of the occupied territory since october the 7th. worldwide rallies are held in solidarity with palestinians in gaza as israeli protesters called for an end to the regime's genocide in the coastal terror. in the israeli city of hyfa, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators and sought to confiscate the placards and the iraq's islamic resistance says it has launched the barrage of missiles at the us run assad base in western iraq. reports say this is the biggest anti-us operation by the iraqi resistance since october the 7th. there are been no immediate reports of casualties.

10 years of chaos and war in syria, the ruins left in syria, who benefits from the continuation of this war? what is the view of the west, particularly america towards war in syria? and the support of many countries for creating chaos in syria, why syria, a different narrative.

of 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 a tabu, it's a tabu, it's a secret, negev 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 plutoneum 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 mass 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 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

secret. 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 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. 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 plants, that's the gate to 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... design of the civic center of new atomic research center that was to be built in demona 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 in the 60s 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 that this

textile factory had dome and wasn't typical of of textile things, but it wasn't seen from the road, it was kind of a 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... that we're taken there, there's a sign that i can open my my uh my small portfolio

and then make it public, this is the courtyard of the of the of the man 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 in 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 at the cover, there is kind of how many years you kept this photos you in secret, how many years 60 building, they did you went inside, haven't seen my own, my own project is" 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 demona nuclear plant was postponed several times by israel. finally, ultimate. 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... shown 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 eisenhauer and his staff, the us secretary of defense informs the president that based on intelligence findings israel was lying and dimono was not for peace. 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. 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 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 invoiding 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 just the submarines, the us, they let us steal uranium, you go to the un, to the npt, to the non-produration 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 israelies. 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 mosa, 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. they 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... information: mean, if you only have nuclear reactor that is making energy like chennel 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 pluton processing, 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... 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 chernobil 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 uh, because we know nothing about the... 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 there's 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 نحن كنا ملاحظين انه في امراض تاتينا غريبه جدا بنوعيات مختلفه فاستفذنا 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 حال 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 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 sesum in the region and sesum is an indication that some something has happened with the 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 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 often 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... في امراض بدات تظهر مثل تساقط الشعر العقم سرطانات

متعدده سرطان قاع الجمجمه سرطان عيون سرطان غده درقيه سرطان المابيض سرطان الرحم الكبد الرئه الدم العظام سرطانات متنوعه عن النفايات النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع وين تدفن تدفن؟ the mess 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. 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 giger counter into the area around demona and measure the radioactivity you could be then sentenced to 15 years in prison so nobody's going to do that i know people. we 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 said 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 chernobyl, from kiev, and that changed the numbers, so that was one answer we got, and of course this is not a serious answer." كانوا يجوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل ال 87 يجوا ياكلوا ويشربوا واحنا نروح عندهم هلا بتعرفي صار في علاقات

انسانيه بينا. 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 they're not asking, and that's the problem.

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 بدخل بسياره هي سياره مسكره ممنوع يشوف البرا او المكان اللي هو رايح لاله كان يشتغل بدون اي نوع من انواع ال 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 اتعرض لها اشتغل حوالي ثلاث شهور

بالمفاعل لما انهى الشغل مباشر. 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 2006 ابوي برضه بعمر صغير مات يعني تقريبا مات 46 سنه. this former demona employee suffered from cancer officially. nobody claims the demona is the cause, this and many other cases come طبعا في حالات اخرى موجوده بنفس القريه يعني 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 لديمون. والاصابه بهالمرض كانت بالسنوات الاخيره يعني من بعد بناء مفائع الديمونا ومن بعد ما بلش الشغل thi. israeli nuclear program is surrounded by novel atmosphere. this man is arnond milsha, 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. produce a cover,

he was actually kind of godfather of israel's nuclear program. news enemy for this hour is restriked in damascus kills at least eight people, including irgc members. israel carries out another terror attack in the syrian capital, damascus, assassinating number of people, including five iranian military, advises the attack target three-story residential building in the city's mezer neighborhood, which houses several diplomatic missions.