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[00:00:00] to reveal what had happened to him since he left London, writing on
[00:00:04] his hand, Vananu M was hijacked in
[00:00:07] Rome.
[00:00:17] Almost 60% of all the environment in Vananu's trial was held in sison and espionage and prison and
[00:00:23] tritium used in the production of espionage, 11 of them, 11 of them in solitary
[00:00:28] at confinements, the woman that seduced Vanom. The
[00:00:30] woman that seduced Vananu was
[00:00:32] months old, he had brain Sheril Bentov.
[00:00:34] After she completed her mission, she disappeared back into her secret
[00:00:38] world. Today she lives back in
[00:00:42] Orlando, USA, with her husband and two daughters,
[00:00:45] running a real estate
[00:00:46] business.
[00:00:51] Valanu's revelations confirm suspicions and
[00:00:54] showed a weapons program bigger
[00:00:58] health of the speech in the local community in and more advanced than anyone had previously thought.
[00:01:01] "Mordekai Vananu was released in 2004,
[00:01:05] but he is not a free man. Israely borders
[00:01:08] and now his prison, his passport was confiscated and
[00:01:12] he cannot contact
[00:01:13] foreigners.
[00:01:18] this Jewish state have 200
[00:01:21] bomb, atomic weapons, neutron bomb, and they are not
[00:01:25] able to say they have the bomb, they are not able to
[00:01:28] destroy anyone." I'm not able to use the bomb, instead the
[00:01:32] arrest,
[00:01:37] enjoy sufficient what we are going to see now is something that has never been shown in a
[00:01:40] non-Israeli TV channel,
[00:01:44] the 3D tour inside the Israeli bomb factory
[00:01:47] recreated thanks to the photos taken by
[00:01:50] Mordakaivananu. This is Institute number one,
[00:01:54] demona's symbol, the
[00:01:57] away, a 20 meters high. nuclear reactor
[00:02:01] dome. In 1986, Vananu took us
[00:02:04] inside,
[00:02:06] heavy water reactor built in the 50s with France and Norway's
[00:02:10] help, with capacity of 24
[00:02:14] megawatts. Thanks to Vann, we learned that this
[00:02:18] reactor capacity is three or possibly even five
[00:02:21] times larger than assumed. This
[00:02:24] reactor produces 40 kilograms of plutonium
[00:02:27] year, enough to build 10. 10 to 12 atomic
[00:02:31] bombs. Adjacent to the reactor is
[00:02:35] Institute number three. Here
[00:02:38] the fuel rods powering the reactor are produced
[00:02:41] together with Lithium 6, another ingredient of the
[00:02:44] bomb. This is Institute number
[00:02:49] 17 cm, located in five. Here the fuel rods are coated with the aluminium. Institute
[00:02:53] number six is the power station of the compound. The
[00:02:57] I believe that many lab is in Institute number eight and side is another
[00:03:00] secret revealed by Mordekai Vananu. This is
[00:03:05] Dimona reactor affects where Israel produces enriched
[00:03:07] besides my fatigue from uranium. Like Plutonium, it's conserved
[00:03:10] as fishionable material for the bomb. The uranium is
[00:03:14] produced through gas
[00:03:16] asked me about cases in centrifuges. Inritched uranium is also produced in Institute number
[00:03:20] nine using Laser, a unique Israeli
[00:03:23] patent. Institute number 10 produces the
[00:03:26] depleted uranium, an important component in the production.
[00:03:30] of armor piercing shells, institute number four handles
[00:03:34] the radiation waste prior to it being disposed, and
[00:03:38] this long two-story building with no windows
[00:03:41] is dimona's biggest secret in the two
[00:03:44] innocent looking floors, the two innocent looking floors hidden
[00:03:48] underground are six additional
[00:03:50] floors. it was bananu who showed the
[00:03:54] world what no satellite could see. here Israel set
[00:03:58] up a plutonium separation. facility with one
[00:04:02] goal, the manufacturing of atomic
[00:04:04] bombs. In the 60s, American
[00:04:07] inspectors visited the first floor, they saw the
[00:04:11] the largest reserve in restaurants and the offices. A special
[00:04:14] 838 types of wall was constructed hiding the elevators leading to the underground
[00:04:17] levels. Back
[00:04:20] birds. The difference in outside, trucks and more than 216 types of bring in the processed uranium
[00:04:22] rods. Through the large doors, a crane
[00:04:28] four existing climates, and these are the climates found in going to meet the mayor and the governor of grasps the rods and lowers them to the big workspace four. saws
[00:04:30] below, the rods are dipped in nitrous acid
[00:04:33] tanks, cooked for about 30 hours, and then a system
[00:04:37] a pipes draws the water containing the uranium and
[00:04:41] atoms and Dimona. Don't plutonium, through a chemical process, the materials
[00:04:44] are separated and then baked in an oven, producing a
[00:04:47] small 130 gram plutonium ball,
[00:04:51] 1.7 kilograms a week, four kilograms
[00:04:54] and it's a bomb, just like this model shot by
[00:04:58] know. This vaneno, the process can be... viewed from level two: a
[00:05:01] balcony was built for distinguished guests,
[00:05:05] balcony and that's the control, and that's the control
[00:05:08] room as shot by bananu, only authorized to enter it. authorize
[00:05:12] to enter it, visits are limited to the prime minister,
[00:05:16] the ministry of military affairs and a small group of
[00:05:19] confidence. equipped with a hidden camera, bananu walked
[00:05:23] about institute number two and took pictures of the different
[00:05:26] sections. not only plutonium is produced
[00:05:29] here. at level number four, Vananu revealed the production of
[00:05:35] thermonuclear bombs, which are more powerful than ordinary
[00:05:39] atomic bombs. two other essential materials. for
[00:05:42] the bomb are produced here, lithium and
[00:05:45] juterium. All these ingredients are taken to level
[00:05:48] five to unit MD2, the metal
[00:05:51] department, where they are assembled into a
[00:05:54] bomb.
[00:05:56] One level down is a recreation room where Bananu shot model of an
[00:06:00] Israeli thermonuclear of an Israeli thermonuclear
[00:06:04] bomb 10 times more powerful than
[00:06:07] the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
[00:06:11] Experts that analyzed. testimony determined that
[00:06:15] by the 80s Israel had produced 100 to
[00:06:18] 200 atomic bombs, this ranks
[00:06:21] Israel as the sixth or even fifth nuclear power in the
[00:06:25] world,
[00:06:32] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the queen el international airport in
[00:06:35] am, from aman we travel to southern
[00:06:39] jordan.
[00:06:45] High cancer rates were recorded in all the southern Jordanian
[00:06:48] governance which confirmed the possible direction of nuclear
[00:06:52] dust that might be leaking from
[00:06:54] Demona.
[00:06:58] Tips we received claim that in Jordan there are hundreds of cases
[00:07:02] of cancer and other diseases, all of them in
[00:07:05] the regions near the border with
[00:07:07] Israel.
[00:07:20] to demona, it is about 30 kms and
[00:07:23] winds or water knows no
[00:07:25] borders.
[00:07:29] In almost every house in this region we can find the same
[00:07:33] story, diseases and
[00:07:35] death.
[00:07:38] Dimona is a word that everybody knows around here.
[00:07:44] But in Jordan, like in Israel, demona and his
[00:07:47] deadly consequences are
[00:07:48] taboo.
[00:07:54] Saleh is tour guide and an
[00:07:56] activist.
[00:07:58] For years, he is trying to uncover what is happening to the
[00:08:02] people around the tafilar
[00:08:03] region.
[00:08:10] facts, for example, the Dimona reactor,
[00:08:13] are a public mood. Everyone knows that something from the
[00:08:18] people. There is an attempt to minimize it, but the
[00:08:21] official bodies do not have
[00:08:24] an opinion to say, and they do not have anything to say to the citizen. So
[00:08:28] it is always one of the unspoken
[00:08:31] topics. So you feel that there is something
[00:08:34] mysterious that the official bodies do not talk much about. The media
[00:08:37] does not talk much. There is no direct
[00:08:41] response
[00:09:16] from. Our next stop is in Tafila.
[00:09:19] Here the average manifestation of cancer is higher than the other
[00:09:23] Jordanian governors and surrounding Arab
[00:09:25] countries.
[00:09:33] We're going to visit the governor's office where we are
[00:09:38] the region. It's a surprise.
[00:09:47] I don't understand the issue, and may God have mercy on the soul of anyone who
[00:09:50] doesn't understand the issue of
[00:09:53] ask me about this topic that I don't know anything about, not
[00:09:56] from far or near. I thought the program you had, your cameras, we were going to talk about
[00:10:00] the tourism reality and since you are a tourist guide in Tafila, I didn't come to talk about
[00:10:04] tourism the first time I came. By God, my friend, I told you about a topic we would talk
[00:10:08] about, the impact of the reactor, by God, I don't
[00:10:10] program is for people.
[00:10:34] Sir, I have absolutely no knowledge of this matter, but
[00:10:38] the governorate is characterized by diversity. In Tafila,
[00:10:42] there is a clean environment, free from pollution. We,
[00:10:44] Jordan and Israel, have a peace treaty, and we are committed
[00:10:48] to its provisions. We and the other side have no
[00:10:51] problems to mention in this matter all.
[00:10:59] During our visit to the governor's office, there was a Jordanian journalist
[00:11:03] present.
[00:11:05] Gazi al-Amerin invites us to meet him far away from the
[00:11:09] official offices and tells us the result of years trying to
[00:11:13] investigate how Demona can be a silent
[00:11:16] killer.
[00:11:20] Dimona is located in the southern region
[00:11:21] of Israel.
[00:11:25] The Israeli government denies the existence of such
[00:11:28] leaks, meaning that before 1980,
[00:11:31] deaths in the south of the
[00:11:35] kingdom suffering from cancer
[00:11:38] were less than
[00:11:41] 2% of the total deaths.
[00:11:44] After 1990, these cases increased
[00:11:48] until they became more than
[00:11:50] 30% of the total
[00:11:54] deaths in Tafila specifically and the surrounding areas. The official
[00:11:56] Jordanian press does not
[00:12:02] freedom. Jordan and the
[00:12:05] Tafila region must have
[00:12:09] a real, effective
[00:12:11] measurement to know the extent of radiation
[00:12:15] in the region. The government is not the one that emitted
[00:12:18] radiation, nor is Israel deliberately emitting
[00:12:21] radiation, nor do we desire it,
[00:12:25] but we need technology, which is
[00:12:29] a technique to know the truth of this radiation
[00:12:32] and its effect on the existing cancer cases,
[00:12:35] which constitute, as I said, more than 30%.
[00:12:55] Doctors linked the cases to demona
[00:12:57] contamination,
[00:12:59] but officially nobody can say it, not even the ones that
[00:13:03] are.
[00:13:05] I started having a tumor years ago. It started small,
[00:13:09] 3 cm in size. It grew to about
[00:13:14] the leg.
[00:13:17] They took biopsies and reports, and they said it was a cancerous germ
[00:13:20] of unknown origin. It started
[00:13:22] to,
[00:13:25] I can't follow my usual duties, I can't work, I can't go, I can't come,
[00:13:29] just mental fatigue,
[00:13:32] hospitals, coming and going, and staying in hospitals and things
[00:13:35] like that. Hospitals and things like that.
[00:13:38] I mean, if you
[00:13:41] the area, there is a case, there is a case.
[00:13:55] Dana is an amazing natural treasure in Jordan, too
[00:13:59] close to
[00:13:59] Demona.
[00:14:05] Basem Saudi was born here in this land, a step away from
[00:14:08] Demona nuclear
[00:14:09] plant.
[00:14:16] He knows that his people are dying silently, and once
[00:14:19] answers that never come.
[00:14:22] Is demona nuclear plant poison?
[00:14:28] We are now on the borders of the Dana Biosphere Reserve. It is
[00:14:31] a reserve whose area covers approximately 300 square kilometers, and it is
[00:14:36] Jordan. The reserve has recorded about
[00:14:39] plants
[00:14:45] elevation has created many climates, so you find that in
[00:14:49] the reserve area, we have recorded
[00:14:53] the Middle East. So the borders in front of us
[00:14:55] are the borders of Jordan with Israel,
[00:14:59] and from here we can see the West Bank and Israel, the West Bank
[00:15:03] and Israel.
[00:15:06] The Dimona reactor is only about 40 km from
[00:15:09] our region, so it is the closest thing. The
[00:15:12] problem with the Dimona reactor is that it is located on
[00:15:15] the rift valley, and the rift valley has many
[00:15:18] earthquakes and tremors.
[00:15:22] So, God forbid, if any earthquake
[00:15:29] or tremor occurs and the reactor cracks, it will definitely be a disaster not only for us, but also for Israel itself, and for the Israeli people, and for all
[00:15:32] people.
[00:15:54] cancers are seen, and sclerosis
[00:15:57] and leaks from the reactor. These radiations have affected
[00:16:01] our region. You have cases, I swear, from the cases
[00:16:05] I had, my child died, he was eight
[00:16:10] atrophy, enzyme deficiency, convulsions, etc. The child
[00:16:13] died. The second child had the same condition, about six children I buried, six children died
[00:16:17] for me. Well, did you try to treat them? I did treatments in medical services, and the last
[00:16:21] time I admitted them to Hadassah Hospital, and he had blood acidity. I mean, do you
[00:16:24] feel that there are many cases that have happened other than what you have? Al-Qadisiyah is still over
[00:16:28] 60% all cancerous and all from means,
[00:16:32] yes, yes, and you can confirm the
[00:16:35] Al-Qadisiyah on the families that pass by and today on your homes. Okay, sir, thank you, and
[00:16:54] we are back in Palestine to visit some villages south of
[00:16:57] Alkali very close to the Negev desert and
[00:17:01] demona. Here the cancer rates are growing in alarming
[00:17:04] numbers. The causes. are not more than
[00:17:08] rumors, nuclear radioactive leakage from
[00:17:12] demona and nuclear waste stumps in the area,
[00:17:15] or even both.
[00:17:19] We try to find a clear answer to these rumors in Berlin with
[00:17:22] Zantha Hall. 200 um cubic
[00:17:26] meters year were produced in demona, and it's been running for more than
[00:17:30] 40 years. We can estimate about 8,000 cubic
[00:17:33] meters of waste, radioactive waste have been u
[00:17:37] as the bottom line um have been produced and so try and
[00:17:41] imagine what that is, it's maybe you know in a picture
[00:17:44] 50,000 standard barrels of oil would be about
[00:17:48] 8,000 cubic
[00:17:49] meters,
[00:17:54] we also don't know where they bury this waste,
[00:17:58] um they say that it's not far from the reactor
[00:18:02] and the main problem that we're looking at here is what state of these
[00:18:06] stainless steel container? is in have they corroded, will they be
[00:18:09] leaking? are they seeping into the ground into the
[00:18:13] into the water sources? are we seeing
[00:18:16] pollution of the environment, therefore of people's
[00:18:19] health? mean i don't know exactly, i don't
[00:18:23] know exactly the geography of the area, but and there
[00:18:26] it's chalk and i imagine that the whole area is probably also
[00:18:30] chalk and that is deposing
[00:18:33] any kind of waste and they saw that with this toxic.
[00:18:37] waste dump because there was leakages and serious health
[00:18:41] problems were discovered, so I would imagine
[00:18:44] that it would be similar in in the area around Damona because
[00:18:47] it's not far
[00:18:48] away
[00:18:54] and also whether it gets into the water or not, because once it
[00:18:58] gets into the water then it transports much further
[00:19:02] into other areas and people can drink it that are quite far
[00:19:05] away.
[00:19:08] um so then we're talking about basically um
[00:19:12] that there would be cancers later on uh or
[00:19:15] leukemia or leukemia um
[00:19:18] and in particularly the children would be badly affected
[00:19:22] women are more susceptible to
[00:19:26] radiation and the effects on them are much greater
[00:19:29] than grown men for
[00:19:30] instance,
[00:19:34] i would say that those are the ones that we have found um
[00:19:37] definitely in the studies that have been done around nuclear
[00:19:41] installations in Germany that the main problem was childhood
[00:19:44] cancer and in the areas
[00:19:47] surrounding plutonium reprocessing
[00:19:50] plants like celler field in the
[00:19:53] UK the main problem was
[00:19:55] leuchemia.
[00:20:02] the radioactivity has a tremendous power that can penetrate the human
[00:20:06] genecting. generation after
[00:20:08] generation.
[00:20:13] Jamal is a Palestinian policeman. He was
[00:20:16] arrested after the second in tifada and spent 13 years
[00:20:20] in jail. Now he is free, but living
[00:20:24] new hell.
[00:20:43] At the age of nine she was diagnosed with
[00:20:45] Leukemia.
[00:21:30] and they gave us medicine. Then we went to Hebron Hospital,
[00:21:34] but they didn't know what the disease was either,
[00:21:38] so they referred us to Beit Jala Hospital, and they did tests and found out what it was.
[00:21:42] They sent the tests to Jerusalem,
[00:21:44] Al-Mutla', and there they diagnosed
[00:21:47] the disease and treated me.
[00:21:54] We hope that
[00:21:56] Dimona
[00:21:59] will leave us so that we can live our lives, so that we can
[00:22:03] live our lives, because it is the cause.
[00:22:20] open the doors of their nuclear programs for
[00:22:22] inspections,
[00:22:24] Israel is a special case, producing nuclear
[00:22:28] weapons since the 60s without any
[00:22:30] control.
[00:22:34] meanwhile, the cancer cases and other diseases are spreading
[00:22:38] across Israel, Palestine and neighboring Arab
[00:22:41] countries. the victims die without
[00:22:45] knowing what or who is killing
[00:22:47] them.
[00:22:53] the situation
[00:22:54] where
[00:22:58] with the click of a button,
[00:23:01] you can bring down nations to their
[00:23:04] needs,
[00:23:08] but don't think that decision to recognize Israel is an easy
[00:23:11] one,
[00:23:13] killing.
[00:23:20] two words that encapsulate a single concept, state
[00:23:24] terrorism. They are a kind of
[00:23:27] artificial existence. It's always been
[00:23:30] our home, it will always be our home. Our main
[00:23:34] weapon of deterrance is their fear of
[00:23:37] us. The killer applauds and
[00:23:40] leaves behind innumerable number of
[00:23:42] victims. All harmed by tools
[00:23:46] of.
[00:24:01] For a man who built his entire political
[00:24:05] persona on invincibility and
[00:24:07] dominance, Donald Trump's recent behavior tells a
[00:24:11] very different story behind the bravado
[00:24:15] and the threats of decimating an entire nation,
[00:24:18] he's a president reportedly. consumed by fear for his own
[00:24:21] life, and the roots of that fear trace directly back to
[00:24:25] decision he made himself. and this is
[00:24:43] inachel. to understand why Trump is so preoccupied with his
[00:24:47] own mortality, we have to go back to January of... 2020
[00:24:51] when he personally ordered the drone strike that
[00:24:54] assassinated general Qasem Sulaymani in
[00:24:56] Baghdad. Trump himself has acknowledged
[00:25:00] that he believes he has been on Iran's kill list ever
[00:25:03] since, as he told the New York post in July of
[00:25:07] 2026, "I've been number one for a long time, and it's the way life
[00:25:11] is, you know. That admission has not stopped Trump
[00:25:14] from taking extraordinary measures to protect himself. In July
[00:25:18] 2026, at the NATO. limit in Ankara Turkia, US
[00:25:21] officials orchestrated an elaborate deception operation, reportedly
[00:25:25] switching Trump off of Air Force 1 and onto a different
[00:25:28] aircraft after intelligence suggested that Iran had
[00:25:32] identified his hotel, his motorcate routes and was considering
[00:25:35] a shoulder mounted missile strike on his plane. Reuters
[00:25:39] lated reported that US intelligence could not independently intelligence
[00:25:43] could not independently verify the specific plot, but the secret.
[00:25:46] Trump himself confirmed the switch weeks later, claiming he followed
[00:25:50] instructions due to a possible Iranian
[00:25:53] threat. That episode was far from
[00:25:56] isolated. Just this week on August 25, 2026,
[00:25:59] Iranian television reportedly aired a video. linked to the
[00:26:03] revolutionary guards core claiming a $10
[00:26:06] million bounty and appearing to threaten the life
[00:26:09] of Trump's own son, baron, the secret service
[00:26:12] confirmed it is investigating. this
[00:26:16] latest incident is part of a longer pattern. in March
[00:26:19] 2026, defense secretary Pete Heksat claimed a US air
[00:26:22] strike had killed an Iranian operative allegedly tied to a plot
[00:26:26] against Trump, declaring that Iran attempted to assassinate President
[00:26:29] Trump and President Trump has ultimately had the... left
[00:26:33] around the same time, a New York courtroom heard testimony in the trial
[00:26:36] of Assep Merchant, a Pakistani national accused of plotting on
[00:26:40] Iran's behalf to assassinate Trump, a scheme prosecutors say
[00:26:44] was sketched out a napkin a budget
[00:26:46] motel. Faced with what he describes as a
[00:26:50] persistent threat to his life, Trump has responded not
[00:26:53] with quiet security measures alone, but
[00:26:57] with public threats of mass destruction. In July
[00:27:00] 2026, he posted that one.
[00:27:02] thousand missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of
[00:27:06] Iran with thousands more to immediately
[00:27:09] follow, should Tehran act on what he called its
[00:27:13] threat to assassinate him. It is worth
[00:27:16] pausing on the sheer imbalance of that statement. A
[00:27:19] president who ordered the extrajudicial killing of foreign
[00:27:22] general on foreign soil is now threatening to completely
[00:27:26] decimate and destroy all areas of an entire
[00:27:29] nation over intelligence that his own government at it is not
[00:27:33] able to verify, whether or not every alleged plot is
[00:27:36] real, the pattern is unmistakable, the man who once
[00:27:40] boasted a now lives behind switched planes, now lives behind switched
[00:27:44] planes, his own children, trump won his own children,
[00:27:47] trump won his own children. Trump wanted a
[00:27:50] war he assumed would be fought entirely on
[00:27:54] someone else's soil with someone else
[00:27:57] absorbing the cost of the war. Instead, five years after ordering
[00:28:01] general Suleiman. assassination, he finds himself the one
[00:28:05] glancing over his shoulder. It is fitting if uncomfortable
[00:28:08] lesson for any leader who believes that violence abroad
[00:28:12] carries no consequences at home. The machinery of
[00:28:15] imperial aggression rarely stays contains to the
[00:28:19] battlefield it was built for.