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00:00:00to reveal what had happened to him since he left London, writing on
00:00:04his hand, Vananu M was hijacked in
00:00:07Rome.
00:00:17Almost 60% of all the environment in Vananu's trial was held in sison and espionage and prison and
00:00:23tritium used in the production of espionage, 11 of them, 11 of them in solitary
00:00:28at confinements, the woman that seduced Vanom. The
00:00:30woman that seduced Vananu was
00:00:32months old, he had brain Sheril Bentov.
00:00:34After she completed her mission, she disappeared back into her secret
00:00:38world. Today she lives back in
00:00:42Orlando, USA, with her husband and two daughters,
00:00:45running a real estate
00:00:46business.
00:00:51Valanu's revelations confirm suspicions and
00:00:54showed a weapons program bigger
00:00:58health 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,
00:01:05but he is not a free man. Israely borders
00:01:08and now his prison, his passport was confiscated and
00:01:12he cannot contact
00:01:13foreigners.
00:01:18this Jewish state have 200
00:01:21bomb, atomic weapons, neutron bomb, and they are not
00:01:25able to say they have the bomb, they are not able to
00:01:28destroy anyone." I'm not able to use the bomb, instead the
00:01:32arrest,
00:01:37enjoy sufficient what we are going to see now is something that has never been shown in a
00:01:40non-Israeli TV channel,
00:01:44the 3D tour inside the Israeli bomb factory
00:01:47recreated thanks to the photos taken by
00:01:50Mordakaivananu. This is Institute number one,
00:01:54demona's symbol, the
00:01:57away, a 20 meters high. nuclear reactor
00:02:01dome. In 1986, Vananu took us
00:02:04inside,
00:02:06heavy water reactor built in the 50s with France and Norway's
00:02:10help, with capacity of 24
00:02:14megawatts. Thanks to Vann, we learned that this
00:02:18reactor capacity is three or possibly even five
00:02:21times larger than assumed. This
00:02:24reactor produces 40 kilograms of plutonium
00:02:27year, enough to build 10. 10 to 12 atomic
00:02:31bombs. Adjacent to the reactor is
00:02:35Institute number three. Here
00:02:38the fuel rods powering the reactor are produced
00:02:41together with Lithium 6, another ingredient of the
00:02:44bomb. This is Institute number
00:02:4917 cm, located in five. Here the fuel rods are coated with the aluminium. Institute
00:02:53number six is the power station of the compound. The
00:02:57I believe that many lab is in Institute number eight and side is another
00:03:00secret revealed by Mordekai Vananu. This is
00:03:05Dimona reactor affects where Israel produces enriched
00:03:07besides my fatigue from uranium. Like Plutonium, it's conserved
00:03:10as fishionable material for the bomb. The uranium is
00:03:14produced through gas
00:03:16asked me about cases in centrifuges. Inritched uranium is also produced in Institute number
00:03:20nine using Laser, a unique Israeli
00:03:23patent. Institute number 10 produces the
00:03:26depleted uranium, an important component in the production.
00:03:30of armor piercing shells, institute number four handles
00:03:34the radiation waste prior to it being disposed, and
00:03:38this long two-story building with no windows
00:03:41is dimona's biggest secret in the two
00:03:44innocent looking floors, the two innocent looking floors hidden
00:03:48underground are six additional
00:03:50floors. it was bananu who showed the
00:03:54world what no satellite could see. here Israel set
00:03:58up a plutonium separation. facility with one
00:04:02goal, the manufacturing of atomic
00:04:04bombs. In the 60s, American
00:04:07inspectors visited the first floor, they saw the
00:04:11the largest reserve in restaurants and the offices. A special
00:04:14838 types of wall was constructed hiding the elevators leading to the underground
00:04:17levels. Back
00:04:20birds. The difference in outside, trucks and more than 216 types of bring in the processed uranium
00:04:22rods. Through the large doors, a crane
00:04:28four 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
00:04:30below, the rods are dipped in nitrous acid
00:04:33tanks, cooked for about 30 hours, and then a system
00:04:37a pipes draws the water containing the uranium and
00:04:41atoms and Dimona. Don't plutonium, through a chemical process, the materials
00:04:44are separated and then baked in an oven, producing a
00:04:47small 130 gram plutonium ball,
00:04:511.7 kilograms a week, four kilograms
00:04:54and it's a bomb, just like this model shot by
00:04:58know. This vaneno, the process can be... viewed from level two: a
00:05:01balcony was built for distinguished guests,
00:05:05balcony and that's the control, and that's the control
00:05:08room as shot by bananu, only authorized to enter it. authorize
00:05:12to enter it, visits are limited to the prime minister,
00:05:16the ministry of military affairs and a small group of
00:05:19confidence. equipped with a hidden camera, bananu walked
00:05:23about institute number two and took pictures of the different
00:05:26sections. not only plutonium is produced
00:05:29here. at level number four, Vananu revealed the production of
00:05:35thermonuclear bombs, which are more powerful than ordinary
00:05:39atomic bombs. two other essential materials. for
00:05:42the bomb are produced here, lithium and
00:05:45juterium. All these ingredients are taken to level
00:05:48five to unit MD2, the metal
00:05:51department, where they are assembled into a
00:05:54bomb.
00:05:56One level down is a recreation room where Bananu shot model of an
00:06:00Israeli thermonuclear of an Israeli thermonuclear
00:06:04bomb 10 times more powerful than
00:06:07the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
00:06:11Experts that analyzed. testimony determined that
00:06:15by the 80s Israel had produced 100 to
00:06:18200 atomic bombs, this ranks
00:06:21Israel as the sixth or even fifth nuclear power in the
00:06:25world,
00:06:32ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the queen el international airport in
00:06:35am, from aman we travel to southern
00:06:39jordan.
00:06:45High cancer rates were recorded in all the southern Jordanian
00:06:48governance which confirmed the possible direction of nuclear
00:06:52dust that might be leaking from
00:06:54Demona.
00:06:58Tips we received claim that in Jordan there are hundreds of cases
00:07:02of cancer and other diseases, all of them in
00:07:05the regions near the border with
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00:07:20to demona, it is about 30 kms and
00:07:23winds or water knows no
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00:07:29In almost every house in this region we can find the same
00:07:33story, diseases and
00:07:35death.
00:07:38Dimona is a word that everybody knows around here.
00:07:44But in Jordan, like in Israel, demona and his
00:07:47deadly consequences are
00:07:48taboo.
00:07:54Saleh is tour guide and an
00:07:56activist.
00:07:58For years, he is trying to uncover what is happening to the
00:08:02people around the tafilar
00:08:03region.
00:08:10facts, for example, the Dimona reactor,
00:08:13are a public mood. Everyone knows that something from the
00:08:18people. There is an attempt to minimize it, but the
00:08:21official bodies do not have
00:08:24an opinion to say, and they do not have anything to say to the citizen. So
00:08:28it is always one of the unspoken
00:08:31topics. So you feel that there is something
00:08:34mysterious that the official bodies do not talk much about. The media
00:08:37does not talk much. There is no direct
00:08:41response
00:09:16from. Our next stop is in Tafila.
00:09:19Here the average manifestation of cancer is higher than the other
00:09:23Jordanian governors and surrounding Arab
00:09:25countries.
00:09:33We're going to visit the governor's office where we are
00:09:38the region. It's a surprise.
00:09:47I don't understand the issue, and may God have mercy on the soul of anyone who
00:09:50doesn't understand the issue of
00:09:53ask me about this topic that I don't know anything about, not
00:09:56from far or near. I thought the program you had, your cameras, we were going to talk about
00:10:00the tourism reality and since you are a tourist guide in Tafila, I didn't come to talk about
00:10:04tourism the first time I came. By God, my friend, I told you about a topic we would talk
00:10:08about, the impact of the reactor, by God, I don't
00:10:10program is for people.
00:10:34Sir, I have absolutely no knowledge of this matter, but
00:10:38the governorate is characterized by diversity. In Tafila,
00:10:42there is a clean environment, free from pollution. We,
00:10:44Jordan and Israel, have a peace treaty, and we are committed
00:10:48to its provisions. We and the other side have no
00:10:51problems to mention in this matter all.
00:10:59During our visit to the governor's office, there was a Jordanian journalist
00:11:03present.
00:11:05Gazi al-Amerin invites us to meet him far away from the
00:11:09official offices and tells us the result of years trying to
00:11:13investigate how Demona can be a silent
00:11:16killer.
00:11:20Dimona is located in the southern region
00:11:21of Israel.
00:11:25The Israeli government denies the existence of such
00:11:28leaks, meaning that before 1980,
00:11:31deaths in the south of the
00:11:35kingdom suffering from cancer
00:11:38were less than
00:11:412% of the total deaths.
00:11:44After 1990, these cases increased
00:11:48until they became more than
00:11:5030% of the total
00:11:54deaths in Tafila specifically and the surrounding areas. The official
00:11:56Jordanian press does not
00:12:02freedom. Jordan and the
00:12:05Tafila region must have
00:12:09a real, effective
00:12:11measurement to know the extent of radiation
00:12:15in the region. The government is not the one that emitted
00:12:18radiation, nor is Israel deliberately emitting
00:12:21radiation, nor do we desire it,
00:12:25but we need technology, which is
00:12:29a technique to know the truth of this radiation
00:12:32and its effect on the existing cancer cases,
00:12:35which constitute, as I said, more than 30%.
00:12:55Doctors linked the cases to demona
00:12:57contamination,
00:12:59but officially nobody can say it, not even the ones that
00:13:03are.
00:13:05I started having a tumor years ago. It started small,
00:13:093 cm in size. It grew to about
00:13:14the leg.
00:13:17They took biopsies and reports, and they said it was a cancerous germ
00:13:20of unknown origin. It started
00:13:22to,
00:13:25I can't follow my usual duties, I can't work, I can't go, I can't come,
00:13:29just mental fatigue,
00:13:32hospitals, coming and going, and staying in hospitals and things
00:13:35like that. Hospitals and things like that.
00:13:38I mean, if you
00:13:41the area, there is a case, there is a case.
00:13:55Dana is an amazing natural treasure in Jordan, too
00:13:59close to
00:13:59Demona.
00:14:05Basem Saudi was born here in this land, a step away from
00:14:08Demona nuclear
00:14:09plant.
00:14:16He knows that his people are dying silently, and once
00:14:19answers that never come.
00:14:22Is demona nuclear plant poison?
00:14:28We are now on the borders of the Dana Biosphere Reserve. It is
00:14:31a reserve whose area covers approximately 300 square kilometers, and it is
00:14:36Jordan. The reserve has recorded about
00:14:39plants
00:14:45elevation has created many climates, so you find that in
00:14:49the reserve area, we have recorded
00:14:53the Middle East. So the borders in front of us
00:14:55are the borders of Jordan with Israel,
00:14:59and from here we can see the West Bank and Israel, the West Bank
00:15:03and Israel.
00:15:06The Dimona reactor is only about 40 km from
00:15:09our region, so it is the closest thing. The
00:15:12problem with the Dimona reactor is that it is located on
00:15:15the rift valley, and the rift valley has many
00:15:18earthquakes and tremors.
00:15:22So, God forbid, if any earthquake
00:15:29or 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
00:15:32people.
00:15:54cancers are seen, and sclerosis
00:15:57and leaks from the reactor. These radiations have affected
00:16:01our region. You have cases, I swear, from the cases
00:16:05I had, my child died, he was eight
00:16:10atrophy, enzyme deficiency, convulsions, etc. The child
00:16:13died. The second child had the same condition, about six children I buried, six children died
00:16:17for me. Well, did you try to treat them? I did treatments in medical services, and the last
00:16:21time I admitted them to Hadassah Hospital, and he had blood acidity. I mean, do you
00:16:24feel that there are many cases that have happened other than what you have? Al-Qadisiyah is still over
00:16:2860% all cancerous and all from means,
00:16:32yes, yes, and you can confirm the
00:16:35Al-Qadisiyah on the families that pass by and today on your homes. Okay, sir, thank you, and
00:16:54we are back in Palestine to visit some villages south of
00:16:57Alkali very close to the Negev desert and
00:17:01demona. Here the cancer rates are growing in alarming
00:17:04numbers. The causes. are not more than
00:17:08rumors, nuclear radioactive leakage from
00:17:12demona and nuclear waste stumps in the area,
00:17:15or even both.
00:17:19We try to find a clear answer to these rumors in Berlin with
00:17:22Zantha Hall. 200 um cubic
00:17:26meters year were produced in demona, and it's been running for more than
00:17:3040 years. We can estimate about 8,000 cubic
00:17:33meters of waste, radioactive waste have been u
00:17:37as the bottom line um have been produced and so try and
00:17:41imagine what that is, it's maybe you know in a picture
00:17:4450,000 standard barrels of oil would be about
00:17:488,000 cubic
00:17:49meters,
00:17:54we also don't know where they bury this waste,
00:17:58um they say that it's not far from the reactor
00:18:02and the main problem that we're looking at here is what state of these
00:18:06stainless steel container? is in have they corroded, will they be
00:18:09leaking? are they seeping into the ground into the
00:18:13into the water sources? are we seeing
00:18:16pollution of the environment, therefore of people's
00:18:19health? mean i don't know exactly, i don't
00:18:23know exactly the geography of the area, but and there
00:18:26it's chalk and i imagine that the whole area is probably also
00:18:30chalk and that is deposing
00:18:33any kind of waste and they saw that with this toxic.
00:18:37waste dump because there was leakages and serious health
00:18:41problems were discovered, so I would imagine
00:18:44that it would be similar in in the area around Damona because
00:18:47it's not far
00:18:48away
00:18:54and also whether it gets into the water or not, because once it
00:18:58gets into the water then it transports much further
00:19:02into other areas and people can drink it that are quite far
00:19:05away.
00:19:08um so then we're talking about basically um
00:19:12that there would be cancers later on uh or
00:19:15leukemia or leukemia um
00:19:18and in particularly the children would be badly affected
00:19:22women are more susceptible to
00:19:26radiation and the effects on them are much greater
00:19:29than grown men for
00:19:30instance,
00:19:34i would say that those are the ones that we have found um
00:19:37definitely in the studies that have been done around nuclear
00:19:41installations in Germany that the main problem was childhood
00:19:44cancer and in the areas
00:19:47surrounding plutonium reprocessing
00:19:50plants like celler field in the
00:19:53UK the main problem was
00:19:55leuchemia.
00:20:02the radioactivity has a tremendous power that can penetrate the human
00:20:06genecting. generation after
00:20:08generation.
00:20:13Jamal is a Palestinian policeman. He was
00:20:16arrested after the second in tifada and spent 13 years
00:20:20in jail. Now he is free, but living
00:20:24new hell.
00:20:43At the age of nine she was diagnosed with
00:20:45Leukemia.
00:21:30and they gave us medicine. Then we went to Hebron Hospital,
00:21:34but they didn't know what the disease was either,
00:21:38so they referred us to Beit Jala Hospital, and they did tests and found out what it was.
00:21:42They sent the tests to Jerusalem,
00:21:44Al-Mutla', and there they diagnosed
00:21:47the disease and treated me.
00:21:54We hope that
00:21:56Dimona
00:21:59will leave us so that we can live our lives, so that we can
00:22:03live our lives, because it is the cause.
00:22:20open the doors of their nuclear programs for
00:22:22inspections,
00:22:24Israel is a special case, producing nuclear
00:22:28weapons since the 60s without any
00:22:30control.
00:22:34meanwhile, the cancer cases and other diseases are spreading
00:22:38across Israel, Palestine and neighboring Arab
00:22:41countries. the victims die without
00:22:45knowing what or who is killing
00:22:47them.
00:22:53the situation
00:22:54where
00:22:58with the click of a button,
00:23:01you can bring down nations to their
00:23:04needs,
00:23:08but don't think that decision to recognize Israel is an easy
00:23:11one,
00:23:13killing.
00:23:20two words that encapsulate a single concept, state
00:23:24terrorism. They are a kind of
00:23:27artificial existence. It's always been
00:23:30our home, it will always be our home. Our main
00:23:34weapon of deterrance is their fear of
00:23:37us. The killer applauds and
00:23:40leaves behind innumerable number of
00:23:42victims. All harmed by tools
00:23:46of.
00:24:01For a man who built his entire political
00:24:05persona on invincibility and
00:24:07dominance, Donald Trump's recent behavior tells a
00:24:11very different story behind the bravado
00:24:15and the threats of decimating an entire nation,
00:24:18he's a president reportedly. consumed by fear for his own
00:24:21life, and the roots of that fear trace directly back to
00:24:25decision he made himself. and this is
00:24:43inachel. to understand why Trump is so preoccupied with his
00:24:47own mortality, we have to go back to January of... 2020
00:24:51when he personally ordered the drone strike that
00:24:54assassinated general Qasem Sulaymani in
00:24:56Baghdad. Trump himself has acknowledged
00:25:00that he believes he has been on Iran's kill list ever
00:25:03since, as he told the New York post in July of
00:25:072026, "I've been number one for a long time, and it's the way life
00:25:11is, you know. That admission has not stopped Trump
00:25:14from taking extraordinary measures to protect himself. In July
00:25:182026, at the NATO. limit in Ankara Turkia, US
00:25:21officials orchestrated an elaborate deception operation, reportedly
00:25:25switching Trump off of Air Force 1 and onto a different
00:25:28aircraft after intelligence suggested that Iran had
00:25:32identified his hotel, his motorcate routes and was considering
00:25:35a shoulder mounted missile strike on his plane. Reuters
00:25:39lated reported that US intelligence could not independently intelligence
00:25:43could not independently verify the specific plot, but the secret.
00:25:46Trump himself confirmed the switch weeks later, claiming he followed
00:25:50instructions due to a possible Iranian
00:25:53threat. That episode was far from
00:25:56isolated. Just this week on August 25, 2026,
00:25:59Iranian television reportedly aired a video. linked to the
00:26:03revolutionary guards core claiming a $10
00:26:06million bounty and appearing to threaten the life
00:26:09of Trump's own son, baron, the secret service
00:26:12confirmed it is investigating. this
00:26:16latest incident is part of a longer pattern. in March
00:26:192026, defense secretary Pete Heksat claimed a US air
00:26:22strike had killed an Iranian operative allegedly tied to a plot
00:26:26against Trump, declaring that Iran attempted to assassinate President
00:26:29Trump and President Trump has ultimately had the... left
00:26:33around the same time, a New York courtroom heard testimony in the trial
00:26:36of Assep Merchant, a Pakistani national accused of plotting on
00:26:40Iran's behalf to assassinate Trump, a scheme prosecutors say
00:26:44was sketched out a napkin a budget
00:26:46motel. Faced with what he describes as a
00:26:50persistent threat to his life, Trump has responded not
00:26:53with quiet security measures alone, but
00:26:57with public threats of mass destruction. In July
00:27:002026, he posted that one.
00:27:02thousand missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of
00:27:06Iran with thousands more to immediately
00:27:09follow, should Tehran act on what he called its
00:27:13threat to assassinate him. It is worth
00:27:16pausing on the sheer imbalance of that statement. A
00:27:19president who ordered the extrajudicial killing of foreign
00:27:22general on foreign soil is now threatening to completely
00:27:26decimate and destroy all areas of an entire
00:27:29nation over intelligence that his own government at it is not
00:27:33able to verify, whether or not every alleged plot is
00:27:36real, the pattern is unmistakable, the man who once
00:27:40boasted a now lives behind switched planes, now lives behind switched
00:27:44planes, his own children, trump won his own children,
00:27:47trump won his own children. Trump wanted a
00:27:50war he assumed would be fought entirely on
00:27:54someone else's soil with someone else
00:27:57absorbing the cost of the war. Instead, five years after ordering
00:28:01general Suleiman. assassination, he finds himself the one
00:28:05glancing over his shoulder. It is fitting if uncomfortable
00:28:08lesson for any leader who believes that violence abroad
00:28:12carries no consequences at home. The machinery of
00:28:15imperial aggression rarely stays contains to the
00:28:19battlefield it was built for.
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