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| Libels |
Since the Palestinian Authority was established it has systematically indoctrinated young and old to hate Israelis and Jews. Using media, education, and cultural structures that it controls, the PA has actively promoted religious hatred, demonization, conspiracy libels, etc. These are packaged to present Israelis and Jews as endangering Palestinians, Arabs, and all humanity. This ongoing campaign has so successfully instilled hatred that fighting, murder and even suicide terror against Israelis and Jews are seen by the majority of Palestinians as justified self-defense and as Allah’s will.
Throughout history bogus conspiracy accusations have been used to incite hatred, violence, and mass murder. The myriad conspiracy libels concerning Israel, Israelis and Jews are an integral part of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing hate promotion. PA libels claim that Israel conspires to infect Palestinians with AIDS, spread drug addiction, conspired and successfully murdered Arafat, and more. The PA’s goal has been to inculcate hatred to the degree that fighting and murdering Jews and Israelis will be glorified as heroic self-defense. |
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| Libel: Nazi-like experiments on prisoners |
The PA is intensifying its longstanding libel campaign, falsely accusing Israel of conducting horrific Nazi-like medical experiments on prisoners. These lies include stories that prisoners are used as “guinea pigs for clinical testing of drugs and treatment-methods" and “inmates received injections … which caused their hair and facial hair to fall out permanently ... others lost their sanity… some are suffering from infertility." Israeli prisons are compared to Nazi camps, as expressed by PA Deputy Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs: “The conditions of our Palestinian prisoners are worse than the Auschwitzes of the Nazis, where Jewish detainees were held.” [PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 6, 2011]
These libels are essential tools to demonize Israel using the highly sensitive subject of Palestinian prisoners.
The following are examples of the prisoner libel: |
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Meeting chaired by Fayyad: Israel has “policy of medical negligence [for prisoners] and targeting civilians”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 10, 2013
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Headline: “The government condemns the policy of medical negligence against our prisoners and holds Israel responsible for their lives.”
“During its meeting yesterday chaired by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the government declared that the fact that the occupation government is acting persistently – especially as regards maltreatment of prisoners, the policy of medical negligence, and targeting civilians – reflects [its] determination to generate tension…
The government again expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of prisoner Abu Hamdiya, to the prisoners in general, and to our people [whether] in the homeland or abroad. It stressed that the Martyr (Shahid) Abu Hamdiya’s contribution to our people’s struggle for freedom and independence will remain an important part of our people’s national memory.”
Note: Maysara Abu Hamdiya was a Palestinian prisoner who died at age 64 of throat cancer while being treated at the Israeli Soroka Hospital in April 2013. He had been arrested in 2002 and was convicted of recruiting and training terrorists, manufacturing and supplying weapons to, as well as securing funding for, terrorist organizations.
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PA Minister of Prisoners accuses Israel of killing a prisoner by "planting" diseases in his body
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Jan. 28, 2013
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Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake: "Our people don't want to receive our [released] prisoners in coffins. It was [bad] enough that a few days ago we received prisoner Ashraf Abu Dhrei, may he rest in peace, as a Martyr of the prisoners, the most recent Martyr to fall among the prisoners caused by diseases planted in his body."
Note: Ashraf Abu Dhrei - prisoner who died after his release.
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Hamas official: Israel gives prisoners medicines for dogs
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 10, 2013
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Headline: "Al-Rishq: 'Giving medicine intended for dogs to prisoners is criminal'"
“A member of the Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement's Political Bureau, Izzat Al-Rishq, condemned [Israel’s] dispensing medicines intended for dogs to a number of ill prisoners. Al-Rishq declared that this is a racist crime and inhumane behavior that demonstrates a forfeit of all principles, norms, and morality, and the low level to which the occupation has reached.”
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PA Minister Karake: Israel intentionally kills sick prisoners
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PA TV Live, Dec. 17, 2012
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PA Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Karake:
“Israel is a state above the law. A state that kills – whether directly or indirectly – the sick prisoners. It could well be that the death of many released prisoners after their release and the discovery of malignant diseases in their bodies signify that prison yards have been made into real graveyards by doctors who are not doctors, doctors dressed like executioners who do not carry out their professional and ethical duties as required by international accords and law.”
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PA PM Fayyad: Israel killed 200 prisoners by "medical negligence and torture"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 12, 2012
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Headline: “At the Bagdad International Conference of Solidarity with the Heroes of ‘the Fortresses of Captivity’ - Fayad: ‘We have 4,600 prisoners, 200 of whom died as Martyrs as a result of medical negligence and torture’”
“Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stressed in his address at the Bagdad International Conference of Solidarity with [Palestinian] Prisoners in Israeli Prisons that Palestine’s having been accepted at the UN strengthens the prisoners’ legal position, and allows for Palestine to be a state signee of the Geneva Convention that includes the rights of prisoners to freedom, and our people’s right to build a fully sovereign independent homeland within the 1967 borders and Jerusalem as its capital.
Fayyad commended Arab and international participation at the conference’s sessions, and said in his address that the legendary resolve demonstrated by freedom-prisoners reflects our people’s willpower, its national resolve, and its hold on its land…
He noted that the Martyrs’ death of 200 detainees in prisons and detention camps [caused by] medical negligence, torture, premeditated murder, beatings, and live ammunition prove that we must work towards exposing the circumstances of their deaths, and force Israel to end its inhumane repressive measures against the prisoners.”
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PA Minister Karake: Israel performs medical experiments on prisoners
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 11, 2012
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PA TV News broadcast from speech by PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Karake at the “International Conference in Solidarity with Palestinian and Arab Prisoners and Detainees in the Prisons of the Israeli Occupation” in Baghdad.
“Male and female prisoners, who committed no crime other than struggling for a free Palestine and for Jerusalem, you will work with us to restrain the occupation state that behaves towards our prisoners as if they were not human, not belonging to the human race, having their most fundamental human rights denied them, like family visits, and [academic] studies, and a fair trial, and their families being detained at check posts, and their (the prisoners’) being subjected to medical experiments.”
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PA Minister Karake: Israel deliberately neglects sick prisoners and has adopted a “policy of slow death”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 21, 2012
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"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, visited the home of released prisoner Alaa A-Din Hassouneh (32), a resident of Hebron who served eight years in the occupation's (i.e., Israel’s) prisons. He served his time in the Ramle prison hospital, since he suffered from a heart disease… [Minister] Karake said… that the situation of ill prisoners has become unbearable, because of the deterioration of their physical conditions and the policy of deliberate medical negligence adopted by the [Israeli] Prison Service. Karake said that a policy of slow death is being implemented against the prisoners. He demanded their immediate release and the dispatch of international commissions of inquiry to look into the deterioration of the medical conditions in the prisons.”
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PA daily quotes doctor who claims that Israel is worse than Nazis in its treatment of Palestinian prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 16, 2012
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Headline: "During press conference held at the Ministry of Information – Karake: The situation in the prisons is on the verge of exploding"
"Chairman of the Doctors' Association, Dr. Jawad Awad…. condemned the Israeli measure against the prisoners [DNA tests] as an immoral and irresponsible step that wasn't practiced even by the Nazis…
He said that reports had reached the association concerning the existence of an Israeli 'skin bank', and stated that skin is taken from Palestinian Martyrs (Shahids) in order to carry out cosmetic surgery and skin grafts for Israeli soldiers.
[Dr. Saber] Al-Aloul [head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine] expressed suspicion as to the Israeli intentions behind this decision, since DNA samples may be used for the purposes of stealing and transplanting organs, cloning, and the like."
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Father of prisoner demonizes Israel on PA TV: “They torture… They take… lives to get confessions”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 2, 2011
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PA TV program Link in the Chain visits the home of prisoner Jihad Abu Ghabn, from Jabaliya camp in Gaza Strip.
Prisoner's father: "What can the enemy gain from the fact that they torture with words, actions and tortures, extracting confessions? And these things – we don't know… nowhere in the world is there a prison more despicable than that of the Jews. Extracting by force. They take their very lives to get the confessions. And Jihad underwent many tortures during the interrogation. They interrogated him at each prison, until eventually the agents trapped him. The agents eventually tricked him into confessing."
Note: According to the program, Mihad Abu Ghabn was arrested in 1988, and sentenced to 38 years' imprisonment. According to an Israeli Prison Service document he was released in the Shalit exchange deal after having been sentenced to 30.5 years for 'causing death intentionally and conspiring to commit a crime'. The program appears to have been filmed before the release. |
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PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs: Israel’s aim is “to kill the prisoners… and to turn them into inhuman creatures”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 10, 2011
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"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, said: 'There is a grave turning point and mortal danger threatening the [hunger] striking prisoners, on the 13th day of their strike.' This was in a speech which Karake delivered at the protest tent in the town of Abu Dis in the Jerusalem district… In his speech, Karake warned that the health situation of the striking prisoners was in continuous decline; they had lost weight and were isolated from the world, and the necessary treatments and medical examinations were not being provided for them. [He added that] the State of Israel's aim is to kill the prisoners, to sabotage the measures they undertake, to attack them and to turn them into inhuman creatures.
Karake warned about… the biased rumors and the incitement in the Israeli media, which presents the prisoners' strike as though it was for the sake of buying whole chickens or restoring a few satellite channels. He emphasized that the termination of solitary confinement is the prisoners' most profound strategic demand, and it is joined by [the demand for] halting the policy of punishments, which is manifested in the withholding of visits, in the imposition of fines, invasions [of cells], the handcuffing of prisoners' hands and feet, and the violation of their human rights."
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PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs accuses Israel of launching a “campaign of oppression and punishments” against prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 6, 2011
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Headline: "During his visit to family of prisoners Akram Mansour in Qalqilya and Du'a Al-Jiyousi in Tulkarem - Karake: A campaign of oppression and punishments in order to break the spirit of the [hunger] striking prisoners in the occupation's prisons"
"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, said that [there is] a crazed campaign of oppression and that the [Israeli] Prison Service has started imposing unfair punishments on prisoners who are holding a hunger strike in all the prisons… Karake's words were said during a visit with a delegation from the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs in the city of Qalqilya to the family of prisoner Akram Mansour Al-Wahsh, who is serving 33 years in the occupation prisons and is holding a hunger strike with the other veteran prisoners in the Ashkelon prison… Karake and a delegation from the Ministry likewise visited the mother of female prisoner Du'a Al-Jiyousi, in the presence of Tulkarem District Governor, Talal Dweikat, and released prisoner Ahmad Abu Sukkar."
Note: Du'a Al-jayousi – transported a suicide terrorist to the site of an attack in Netanya in 2002. Serving 3 life sentences.
Akram Mansour – serving a life sentence for killing a reserve soldier in 1979. |
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PA daily spreads libel that Israel performs medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 3, 2011
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Headline: "Quiet and ongoing Israeli war being waged indiscriminately against bodies of prisoners"
"We believe that one of the main reasons for the rise in the number of sick prisoners, aside from the bad living conditions, is medical negligence and neglect, procrastination in providing treatment and performing vital operations, medical errors, and the use of prisoners' bodies for carrying out medical experiments. This [claim] is based on statements by Israeli Member of Parliament and former Chairman of the parliamentary Science Committee, Dalia Itzik, who admitted in 1997 that 1,000 medical experiments are carried out covertly each year on prisoners in the [Israeli] prisons. Also, the head of the Medications Department of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Amy Laftat, added before the Parliament at the same meeting that there is an annual increase of 15% in the number of approvals issued by the Ministry of Health for carrying out additional experiments with medications. If there were 1,000 experiments 14 years ago, with a 15% annual increase, today there is strong basis for assuming that this is still going on, also because 'Israel' has not denied it and has not announced that this has been stopped. Perhaps this explains the spread of serious, malignant illnesses among the prisoners, and the appearance of strange sicknesses. "
Note: The article says "we believe" without quoting anyone in particular.
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PA daily: Israel conducts dangerous experiments on prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 11, 2011
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Headline: "New book about suffering of sick Palestinians under Israeli occupation"
"The Al-Zaytouna Center for Studies and Consultations in Beirut has published a new book in the 'Am I Not a Person?' series, entitled 'The suffering of sick Palestinians under the Israeli occupation'…
The book, written by Fatima Itani and Atef Daghlas and edited by Mohsin Saleh, covers 127 average-size pages. This is the 11th part in the 'Am I Not a Person?' series, which deals with different aspects of the suffering caused by the Israeli occupation… The book talks about medical experiments which are conducted in Israeli hospitals on sick Palestinians, including children, old people, and the mentally ill, without the consent of the patients or of their legal guardians, and with no consideration for the international conventions regulating medical experiments on the ill. This is in addition to the experiments which the occupation carries out using dangerous experimental medications on prisoners in its prisons, and in addition to the theft of organs from dead Palestinians in order to treat Jewish patients, including soldiers in the occupation army."
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Prisoners’ Committee in Gaza: Israel poisons and murders Palestinian prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 8, 2011
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Headline: "Prisoners' Committee emphasizes that Israel is stealing the money and the lives of the prisoners"
"The Prisoners' Committee of the National and Islamic Forces in Gaza condemned the Israeli measures and violations against prisoners in the Ketziot prison in the desert, and the poisoning of 40 prisoners, following the spoiled and [date-] expired food which the Prison Service is serving the prisoners. The Prisoners' Committee said yesterday in a special announcement that Israel seeks to steal the prisoners' money and their lives: On one hand it is privatizing the prisons, forcing the prisoner to live at his personal expense, while on the other hand it is trying to liquidate the prisoners by poisoning them with spoiled food, or through other methods and means, as happened with the prisoner Haitham Salahiyeh, who had poison put in his cup of coffee on Jan. 9, 2011, or through withholding [medical] treatment for prisoners."
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PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs: Israel has policy of medical negligence against prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 1, 2011
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“The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs announced yesterday the launch of the National Campaign for the Release of Sick Prisoners, under the name ‘Open the Door’, on the anniversary of the imprisonment of sick prisoner Akram Mansour, on Aug. 2, 2011.
The campaign was announced during a press conference held in Ramallah, in the presence of Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake; the Ministry’s attorney, Yamen Zidan, and the family of prisoner Akram Mansour. Karake said: 'This campaign is meant to focus attention on the sick prisoners, who are suffering from a policy of medical negligence, and some are in an acute state of health. In addition, they are not being given the necessary treatment, and there are no specialist clinics.'
He stated that more than 1,500 prisoners are suffering from various illnesses, among them 75 prisoners with motor and psychological handicaps and 18 prisoners who are sick with cancer and malignant growths… He emphasized that there is a brutal assault on prisoners on the part of the [Israeli] Prison Service, expressed in its refusal to introduce the necessary medical machinery, and withholding visits, especially from sick prisoners…
Zidan… noted that the Prison Service views the sick prisoners as guinea pigs for medicines, to the point of making the provision of necessary treatment to a prisoner conditional on his isolation." |
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PA Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs: Israel carries out “premeditated murder” of Palestinian prisoners
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 28, 2011
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Headline: "Reviewed situation of prisoners in the occupation's prisons – Karake demands that Israel's legal and international legitimacy be revoked and that the tragic situation of the detainees be investigated"
"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, called for the occupation state's legal and international legitimacy to be revoked, since it is not implementing international conventions and laws with regard to treatment of Palestinian prisoners in the occupation's prisons. Karake's statement came as part of his testimony to the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in Amman, capital of Jordan… Karake said that the Israeli government is not implementing international humanitarian law in the way in which it treats the prisoners, since there are tortures, detention and abuse of minors, a policy of medical neglect, isolation with no time limit, and the prisoners' fundamental rights are withheld from them… Karake noted the instances of premeditated murder in the prisons and the interrogation rooms, and the punishment of family members and children through removal from their homes, or the imposition of house arrest. He demanded that the Committee declare Israel a state [behaving as if] above the law, and that its international and legal legitimacy be revoked, and that it not be dealt with as a member state of the UN since it does not honor the UN Charter or humanitarian and international principles."
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PA Minister accuses Israel of premeditated murder of Palestinian prisoners
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2011
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Headline: "During national conference for aid to the cause of sick prisoners – Karake demands closure of the Ramle prison hospital and boycott of the health system of the [Israel] Prison Service doctors"
"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake demanded of [human] rights organizations and national institutions to act to close the deadly hospital in Ramle, to document instances of premeditated murder, and to have an international commission of inquiry sent to examine the situation of the sick prisoners, and especially those [suffering] incurable diseases, including the prisoners suffering from psychiatric illnesses, which are the most dangerous cases, and to act to raise a cry to boycott the health system of the [Israeli] Prison Service doctors."
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PA daily columnist: Israel worse than Nazis and fascists in its treatment of prisoners
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 5, 2011
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Headline: "Palestinian Prisoners' Movement in a predicament"
"Everyone can ask: Which party is sabotaging the [prisoner exchange] deal for [Gilad] Shalit? It is the distorted Israeli criteria which declare that prisoners fighting for liberty of their people and the independence of their homeland and their state, have blood-stained hands, and other things which no one believes. These courageous heroes are freedom-fighters; they are not criminals. It was not they who came to 'Eretz Yisrael', occupied it, and settled it by force! This was done to the Palestinian people by the Israeli occupation…
The record of the Israeli treatment to our prisoners is not a clean record at all. Some have died as Shahids (Martyrs) inside the prisons as a result of Israeli medical negligence and as a result of logistical negligence: fires have broken out in some Israeli prisons because of electrical faults or something else, and even more serious are acts which even the Nazis and the fascists did not commit at the height of their arrogance and hatred for humanity, such as the imprisonment of pregnant women so that they would give birth in prison; detention of women together with their children; procedures forbidding family visits; Israel's refusal to appoint lawyers for them; isolation for lengthy periods; violent and racist interrogation methods; and other Israeli violations and actions which are considered crimes against humanity."
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