Dramatic increases in cancer cases, sterility and abnormal births in south of the West Bank is said to be linked to a uranium leak at the Dimona nuclear power plant."Doctor! The readings are off the charts!"
In villages located in the south of the West Bank, cancer cases, sterility and mental disorders have surged, particularly in the Avaria village, which has a population of over 35,000 people. International scientists have investigated the anomaly to find out the reason is behind it.
"Ungh! What do you make of this, Professor?"
"Hmmm... Strange. Never seen anything like it before...!"
"During the past 20 years, there has been a sharp increase in Thyroid disorders, sterility, abnormal births and cancer cases," Mahmoud Sa'adeh, of the 10,000 strong International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said in an interview with Press TV. "One case was an 11-year-old boy who developed heart cancer. This disease happens to one out of one hundred million people so is extremely rare. The boy died recently," he said.
"There was another young fellow who started growing feathers..."
The group, with the help of Al-Khalil (Hebron) University, has studied the possible impacts of Israel's Dimona reactor, located in the Negev desert some 30km away from Avaria village.
"Ahah! What's this?"
"Doctor! Look out! You're... You're growing gill slits!"
"Why so I am! And that probably explains my sudden urge to go for a swim!"
Governor of al-Khalil Kamel Hemed said, "Last year we killed over 2,000 dogs in our region. They were not behaving normally and were very aggressive and huge in size."
"How huge were they, Kamel?"
"We're talkin' several city blocks apiece!"
"We do not own the needed technologies to investigate the matter and we are also banned from traveling to the border areas. We have asked international organizations to intervene", he added.
"Help me! Help me!"
Uranium in the area has been tested at ten times the permitted concentration by Al-Khalil University. The elements of thorium and cesium follow the same pattern of results. Cesium only emerges from nuclear kabooms or nuclear activities and is 12 to 30 times the permitted concentration in five local villages of Paleostine.
"Doctor! We're running low on cesium!"
"Oh, well. Just set off another bomb! Do it over by the Paleostinian side of the fence so we don't get any on us! Do it at night, and that way they won't notice it!""
"The nuclear waste from Dimona power plant is buried under Paleostinian state land and in some cases under Israeli settlements. In a nearby settlement, there are at least 20 cancer cases. They are too afraid to speak out.
"If they do their lips fall off and their tendrils go all flaccid!"
"Every person over there gets around USD 20,000 dollars a month from the Israeli government in order to stay silent," Sa'adeh said.
"Those bastards are rolling in money!"
"Israel pays USD11 per barrel to bury waste in this way. It would cost them over USD 5,000 per barrel if it was lawfully disposed of in other countries like Mauritania or Somalia," he added.
"Got another barrel of sludge here, chief!"
"Oh, just bury it over there under the Paleostinians!"
"Hokay. That'll be eleven bucks!"
"Can you take a check?"
It has also been observed that the surrounding area currently has an unbalanced ecological system where reptiles and plants are almost gone, replaced by an increase in cockroaches, scorpions and other insects known to be able to resist radiation.
"Some of them are over sixty feet long!"
The Israeli government is believed to be fully aware of the situation as in 2004 it started to deliver radiation tablets to Bedouins of the desert.
"Here y'ar, Abu! Just take two of these and you'll be fine!"
"My youngest daughter! She glows at night!"
"Well, lots of people's daughters glow in the dark!"
"Sure. You've heard the saying, 'Horses sweat, men perspire, daughters glow', right?"
"Shut up, Avi, that's not helpful!"
It was out of the Dimona plant in 1986 that whistleblower and nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu came to tell the world that Israel had secret nuclear weapons programs.
"I seen 'em! Oh, Gawd! They was big 'uns!""
The international community has for decades turned a blind eye to the issue, but scientists are now concerned that the Israeli program risks creating a second Chernobyl catastrophe. Israel refuses to allow IAEA inspectors to enter the facility.
"Piss off. Go inspect someplace else."
The nuclear reactor has become very old after 48 years, with experts warning of leakage into some Israeli and Paleostinian territories, reaching Jordan, Syria, Egypt and going as far as Libya.
"Back off, youse guys, or the reactor gets it!"