Israeli reactor spreads cancer
A Palestinian doctor
has warned that the Israeli reactor of Dimona's buried nuclear waste spreads cancer
and sterility in the region.
Published on Monday, August 20, 2007 by Press
TV
Also a member of the committee of International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Dr. Mahmoud Sa'ada, said
in a press conference Sunday that the radiation produced by the Israeli reactor
of Dimona has increased cancer, sterility, mental disorders and skin diseases
among Palestinians in the West Bank city of al-Khalil.
Sa'ada added the
Palestinian town of al-Thaheryia located near al-Khalil (Hebron) has witnessed
about 200 cancer cases so far and an unprecedented mutation rate which is due
to environmental pollution.
The physician also said the Dimona reactor
situated in the Naqab (Negev) desert south of Israel, produces hundreds of tons
of nuclear waste each year which is buried by the Zionists in Palestinian areas.
The Dimona nuclear reactor has been in operation since early 1965, and
is the source of plutonium for Israeli nuclear weapons.
The Zionist regime
which possesses one of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, has more than
200 nuclear weapons.
Israel opposes the inspection visits conducted by
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) all over the world. Added to its
rejection, until this very day, it has refused to sign the treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed by all Arab states.
Experts have
warned that there's a regional and long-term threat in Dimona reactor, represented
in the presence of nuclear bombs in the possession of a regime such as Israel
- an issue that raises questions about the inspection visits in Iran as well as
the UN Security Council's resolutions against the Islamic Republic, while Israel
publicly admits to possessing nuclear weapons.
Posted August 21, 2007