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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 taboo, it's a tabo. to secret: negav 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 politaneum 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 mass destruction, meaning nuclear chemical and biological. we're the only ngo dealing with this right now in israel, when you believe that these 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, demona, it's too far, you know, can you get closer please? approaching a nuclear plant is a 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 worn drivers not to stop their... vehicles under

any circumstances, they have cameras, they of will see, this is a military zone, it says don't go off the road, shoot your ass, military zone, no photography, finally we can have a distant look at one of the world's most secret facilities, an exclusive view of of secret israel is hiding since the 1960s, to the monar, yes, that's the gate, go inside, this is the gate 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. the civic center of new atomic research center that was to be built in dimona in the south part of israel, for security reasons we couldn't call it a big center of research was called a civic center in the naked because in the 60s it wasn't such big news to have textile uh factory in demona, 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 of a... 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 man building the other side looking. towards the towards the entrance, you see the entrance is here and this is from booking 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, this is kind of how many years you kept these photos in 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 of kennedy took office, he knew from a cia secret report that israel was developing new. 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. 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 a fake control room on the ground floor. 12th of january 1961, the aim 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 zall. she is an expert in nuclear weapons and the direct 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 israel 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 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 invoiding inspections to 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, to the non-priferation 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 has exchange 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 contract 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 the... have settlements when the cold say settlements 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 charnobil 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 the war heads, 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 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 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 the... 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. 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 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 السيزيون هذه ماده لا تنتج الا في حرب نوويه او مداخل نوويه sezium 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 cesium 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 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 cesium is at the same levels as in chennobil 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 uh 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 the 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 الدرقيه، سرطان. الموابيض سرطان الرحم الكبد الرئه الدم العظام سرطانات متنوعه عن النفايات النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع ايه وين تدفن تدفن في الضفه الغربيه لانه احنا بيعتبرونا مكب نفايات لهم يعني يعني احنا 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 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 geiger 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 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 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 not a serious كانوا يجيوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل ال87 يجواا وياكلوا ويشربوا ونحن نروح عندهم هلا

بتعرف 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 dimona are not rich most of them this is if they were rich people the بس انا اتحدا اذا في واحد يجرا ان يتكلم لانه بياخذوا 70 الفيكل مساعده. 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 of telling his father's story, and only accepts to talk if we protect his identity. 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 لبرا 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 يتعرض لها اشتغل حوالي ثلاث

شهور بالمفاعل لما انها 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 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 from the same region. طبعا في حالات اخرى موجوده بنفس القريه يعني توفوا فيه. هم 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 arnond milcher, famous hollywood producer behind films like pretty woman, club of fighters or la confidential. he was also good friends with shimon perres and benyamin netanjahu. recently, he revealed his during all these years he worked as mossad 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. israel strikes target al-barak school in gaza killing about 50 people, over dozen civilians also lost their lives as regime shelled several buildings of ashifa hospital complex is. has killed one person and injured 20 others at alcot's hospital as well. the international committee of the red cross is warned the health system in gaza has reached a point of no return. authority says hospital supplies are running out and it is becoming increasingly unsafe to work as healthcare staff.