the us economy is tied to waging new wars. arms manufacturing companies in the us have always been the winners of the wars. military contractors are the new phenomena to do the dirty work for the us military and other parts of the world like iraq and afghanistan. 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 taboo, it's a... to 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 poletoneum 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

of most secretive nuclear program in the world, which is 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 ten avi we go south, our destination, dimona, it is too far, you know, can you get closer please? approaching the nuclear plant is a high risk, في the highway spices through the heat and sand of the negev desert, barbed wire fence edges the road, signs posted every few hundred meters worn drivers not to stop. their

vehicles under any circumstances, they have of cameras, they will see, this is a military zone, it says don't go up in the road, because you will shoot your ass 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. dimolar nuclear plants, 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 of sworn to seek. but there is someone that

knows exactly how the building looks like, it was secret competition with the... the civic center of new atomic research center that was to be built in the south part of of israel, for security reasons we couldn't call it a big center of research was called a civic center in the managen 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 a dome and wasn't a

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 from the other side. looking towards the towards the entrance, the entrance is here and this is from looking from other side at the same the same building, this is the detail of the stairs leading from the to to the roof, you can have a roof cover as you see here, you can go up up to the roof under cover, kind of how many years you kept these photos, you see? good, 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 president kennedy took office, he knew from a cia secret report that israel was developing 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 of 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

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 zanta hall. she is an expert in nuclear weapons and director of international precisions 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, 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 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 sits.

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-poliferation 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. 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 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 chernobel 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. 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 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 انهجد هناك اشاعات مش الطبيعه الا في حاله صفر مثل ماده السيزيوم هذه ماده لا تنتج الا في حرب نوويه او مداخل نووييه sezium is not present nature and can only be found in areas where a nuclear disaster or test takes place we know

how seasium works um on the body, because of chernoble 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 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 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 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 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

الجمججمه، سرطان عيون، سرطان غده الدرقيه، سرطان ا المابيض، سرطان الرحم، الكبد، الرئه، الدم، العظام، سرطانات متنوعه اذا عن النفايات. النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع، وين تدفن؟ تدفن 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, 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 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 answer. كانوا يجيوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل 87 يجواا وياكلوا ويشربوا ونحن 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 يحكيش people in the monana are not rich most of them this is if they were rich people they wouldn't live next to 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, 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 البرا او المكان اللي هو رايح لاله كان يشتغل بدون اي نوع من انواع ال اجراءات الوقايه على العكس تماما ننفس الزلمه اللي كان يجيب له الاكل او الشرب كان يكون متخذ كافه الاجراءات الاحتياطيه او الوقائيه ضد ال المخاطر اللي ممكن تعرض 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 و اعراض كثيره منها يعني بالنهايه الله توفاه بال 2006 ابوي برده بعمل صغير مات يعني تقريبا مات ب 46 سنه. this former demona employee suffered from cancer. officially nobody claims that demona is the cause. this and many other cases come from the same region. طبعا في حالات اخرى موجوده بنفس القريه يعني توفوا في منهم اطفال صغار يعني بتجاوز 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 benyamin netanyahu. recently, he revealed his double life. 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. news and brief on press tv, on the 37th day of israel's devastating war on gaza, palestinians are enjoying relentless bombings on civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, schools, hospitals, medical facilities. and everywhere in the besieged territory. the palestinian death toll has now surpassed 11,000, over 8,000 of them women and children. israel strikes target al-borach school in gaza killing about 50 people. over dozen civilians also lost their lives as the regime shell several buildings of shifa hospital complex. israeli snipers killed one person and injured 20 others in alphuts hospital.