yes 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 taboo, it's a taboo, 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 polutoneum for atomic bombs. "we need answers and we go to of

meet one of the few people in israel that knows what is going on inside dimona. we are of dealing with this element of a 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 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, that is 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 worn drivers not to stop their vehicles.

under any circumstances, they have cameras, of they 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 secret israel is hiding since the 1960s, demona nuclear. their pants, that's the gate to go inside, this is the gate to the monar, yes, only few people in the world can say of 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, there was a secret competition with the uh design. the uh 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 could call it a big center of research was called a civic center in the negatively because you say you could. "in the 60s it wasn't such big news to have textile factory in the monarna, 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 a dome and it wasn't typical of

of tactiles, 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 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 courty out of the of the the man 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 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 on the cover, the kind of how many years you kept these photos in secret? how many years this 60 building the 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. 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. owner, 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 neguev was clear, in a high-level meeting between president eisenhower 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 zantha hall. she is an expert in nuclear weapons and the director of international decisions for the prevention of nuclear war. zanter hall is also the coordinator of the european parliament commission against nuclear proliferation. the israel's 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'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 container? 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 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 solds the submarines, the us, they let us steal 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 mossa. 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 ca 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 repose. processing and you have actually the making the war heads, then you have, you know, many more possibilities, have they're 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 chennob 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 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. ability, 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 cesium is not present nature and can only be

found in areas where a nuclear disaster or test takes place. "we know how sium works um on the body because of chernobil 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 that that there has been a study that has found cesium in the region and sium 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 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 3.2 years, and um, it acts like 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 heart disruption. الدرقيه

سرطان المابيض سرطان الرحم الكبد الرئه الدم العظام سرطانات متنوعه عن النفايات النفايات اللي صادره من المصنع وين تدفن تدفن في الظفه الغربيه لانه احنا بيعتبرونا مكب يعني يعني احنا حقل تجارب للاسرائيليين there are many rumors about where they bury the... waste, but my and not just my estimations are that all the materials are buried in the area surrounding 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 geeger 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 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 a... out and 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 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 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 serious answer. كانوا يجوا عندي اسرائيليين قبل 87 يجوا وياكلوا ويشربوا ونحن نروح عندهم هلا بتعرف صار في

علاقات انسانيه بينا فتسال عن فلان وين فلان بيقوللك مات طب ليش مات شو سبب موته يقول لك مصاب بالسرطان طب من وين people in timona are not rich most of them this is if they were rich people they wouldn't live next to a reactor. "yes, 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 that they are more afraid to talk about it in the radiation. طيب, واللي ماساكن في المناطق الاسرائيليه طيب اللي ساكنين في المستوطنات في عندهم اصابات, بس انا اتحدى اذا في واحد يجرؤ انه يتكلم، لانه بياخذوا 7000." more cases around palestine, in a small village lost in al-kalil hills, there are other victims, one

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. 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 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 يكون متخذ كافه الاجراءات الاحتياطيه او الوقائيه ضد المخاطر اللي ممكن اتعرض لها اشتغل حوالي ثلاث شهور بالمفاعل لما انهى الشغل مباشره بلشت تظهر

عليه اعراض المرض كان يقح ما يقدر يتنفس كان يعني بالنهايه شعره واعراض كثيره منها يعني بالنهايه الله توفاه ب 2006 ابوي برضه بعمر صغير مات يعني تقريبا مات 46 سنه. from a jordanian hospital is clear, this former demona employee suffered from cancer, officially may claims to...