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Kom in actie!
Binnenkort wordt besloten welk bedrijf het busvervoer in de regio Zaanstreek Waterland mag gaan verzorgen. EBS is één van de bedrijven die meedingen naar deze concessie.
Wat kun je als consument doen om te voorkomen dat jij als OV-reiziger straks moet meebetalen aan mensenrechtenschendingen?
Schrijf een email naar de leden Provinciale Staten van de provincies …. naar de portefeuillehouders OV Gedeputeerde Staten en naar het bedrijf dat belast is met het beoordelen van de inschrijvingen voor de concessie in Zaanstreek Waterland. Laat hen weten dat EBS moet worden uitgesloten van deze concessie en van alle toekomstige concessies, tot het bedrijf zijn leven aantoonbaar heeft gebeterd.”
BDS NEDERLAND
EBS BUSSEN: ONBEWUST MEELIFTEN MET APARTHEID
de reiziger
Er zijn kortom genoeg redenen om EBS uit te sluiten van aanbestedingen in het Nederlandse busvervoer. Bovendien, door concessies aan EBS te gunnen worden reizigers die op het openbaar vervoer zijn aangewezen gedwongen aan boord te gaan bij een bedrijf dat betrokken is bij illegale activiteiten, mensenrechtenschendingen en mogelijke oorlogsmisdaden in bezet Palestina. Reizigers beseffen veelal niet dat hun euro’s indirect ten goede kunnen komen aan mensenrechtenschendingen. Dat zou ook niet hoeven: het publiek moet erop kunnen vertrouwen dat het mensenrechtenbeleid bij de overheid in veilige handen is.
Kom in actie!
Binnenkort wordt besloten welk bedrijf het busvervoer in de regio Zaanstreek Waterland mag gaan verzorgen. EBS is één van de bedrijven die meedingen naar deze concessie.
Wat kun je als consument doen om te voorkomen dat jij als OV-reiziger straks moet meebetalen aan mensenrechtenschendingen?
Schrijf een email naar de leden Provinciale Staten van de provincies …. naar de portefeuillehouders OV Gedeputeerde Staten en naar het bedrijf dat belast is met het beoordelen van de inschrijvingen voor de concessie in Zaanstreek Waterland. Laat hen weten dat EBS moet worden uitgesloten van deze concessie en van alle toekomstige concessies, tot het bedrijf zijn leven aantoonbaar heeft gebeterd.
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”Until 2017, the parent company operated bus lines to Israeli settlements in the occupied West bank and Jerusalem. The bus lines were armored vehicles, that according to the company allowed them to pass through “Arab populated areas”. Since then, the operation of bus lines to settlements was transferred to the company’s subsidiary Egged Taavura. Egged Taavura operates bus lines to settlements in the West Bank, in the areas of Gush Etzion, Giva’at Ze’ev, Binyamin, Mount Hebron and Kiryat Arba, including settlements in the Jordan Valley, and the settlements of Shiloh, Otniel and Ma’ale Adumim.”
EGGED ISRAEL TRANSPORT COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
A public transportation operator.
Until 2017, the parent company operated bus lines to Israeli settlements in the occupied West bank and Jerusalem. The bus lines were armored vehicles, that according to the company allowed them to pass through “Arab populated areas”. Since then, the operation of bus lines to settlements was transferred to the company’s subsidiary Egged Taavura. Egged Taavura operates bus lines to settlements in the West Bank, in the areas of Gush Etzion, Giva’at Ze’ev, Binyamin, Mount Hebron and Kiryat Arba, including settlements in the Jordan Valley, and the settlements of Shiloh, Otniel and Ma’ale Adumim.
The company’s subsidiary, Egged Heseim, Tours and Recreation, provides tours and travel packages to the Old City of Jerusalem and the City of David settler complex, located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. The company also organizes tours to Bethlehem, Jericho and the occupied Syrian Golan,
In 2018, the company’s branch in Ashdod organized a donation campaign for the Israeli army in the area surrounding the besieged Gaza.
In November 2014, 27 Palestinian bus drivers at Egged quit their jobs and dozens more went on strike for fear of being attacked by Israeli settlers as tensions increased in Jerusalem during that period. This act came after driver Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni was found hanged in an Egged bus in Jerusalem.
Presently, the company uses vehicles manufactured by Mercedes and Volvo.
The company is currently running for the tender to operate the new light rail line in Jerusalem, which will connect more settlements. The company was initially disqualified for fear of creating a monopoly (as it also operates buses in Jerusalem), but in March 2019 the general director of the Israeli antitrust authority ruled that it can, provided it commits to dropping some of its bus lines if selected.
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” The above companies are joined by the 12 companies already published on Channel 2 News including Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Bezeq and Bezeq International, Coca Cola, Africa Israel, Teva, IDB, Egged, Mekorot, Netafim and Elbit Systems.”
130 ISRAELI COMPANIES, 60 INT’L CORPORATIONS, ON UN
”BLACKLIST”
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights al-Hussein warns Israeli firms of their inclusion in ‘blacklist’ of companies operating in West Bank, east J’lem, Jordan Valley; list includes prominent companies such as Bezeq, Hot, Ahava, Cellcom, Bank Hapoalim and others; Bezeq CEO scorns ‘entirely anti-Israeli propaganda.’
In the past few weeks, 130 Israeli companies and 60 international corporations operating in Israel received warning letters from United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra’ad al-Hussein cautioning them of their impending inclusion in a “blacklist” of companies active beyond the Green Line in “violation of international law and UN resolutions.”
Ynet has gained access to part of the list, which is set to be published in late December and cites 25 well-known Israeli companies. The companies operate in different sectors—some in food manufacturing, others in services, pharmaceuticals and even high-tech—but have one thing in common: they all operate in settlements, east Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
Among the companies in the commissioner’s sights are Ahava, Dor Alon,
Amisragas, Angel Bakeries, Arison Investments, Ashdar, Clal Industries, Café Café, Cellcom, Danya Cebus, Electra, HP, Hot, the Israel Aerospace Industries, Matrix Systems, Motorola, Nesher, Partner, Paz, Rami Levy, Remax, Housing & Construction (Shikun Binui), Shufersal, Sonol and Trima.
The above companies are joined by the 12 companies already published on Channel 2 News including Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Bezeq and Bezeq International, Coca Cola, Africa Israel, Teva, IDB, Egged, Mekorot, Netafim and Elbit Systems.
The “Washington Post” published American companies will also be appearing on the list, including Caterpillar, Tripadvisor and Airbnb.
Some of the companies to be included on the list are still considering their response, but others are already fighting back with the claim their inclusion on the list may cause them financial harm and tarnish their brand, and are therefore looking into filing suits against the Commissioner and the UN’s Human Rights Council that called for the list’s preparation in the first place.
The companies claim the list’s creation was politically motivated and point to the fact that the commissioner constructed no such lists pertaining to other regions of conflict—such as the Crimean Peninsula and Western Sahara—as proof.
Both Israel and the US have been working behind the scenes in the past few weeks to prevent the list’s publication, but it appears it may be presented with a fait accompli. Despite the fact the list carries no operational or legal ramifications, the symbolic move nevertheless caused concern among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials due to the fact it may provide a serious boost to BDS efforts, deter foreign investors and convince foreign companies operating in Israel to reduce their operations.
“It may cause large investment firms or pension funds carrying stocks of various Israeli companies to divest in them because they, in turn, operate in the settlements. It may lead to a snowball effect that will greatly harm the Israeli economy eventually,” said a senior Israeli official.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates the Human Rights Commissioner received most of his information about the Israeli firms from Israeli non-profits operating in the settlements and investigating business activities beyond the Green Line.
AIPAC goes to war
In an effort to scuttle the move, the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby has been working in the US on promoting rapid legislation in Congress determining any company divesting its business dealings from Israel will be considered to have “capitulated” to the Arab boycott, and would thus be in violation of American law.
The Human Rights Council’s efforts to isolate Israel—executed through the office of the commissioner—have largely been facilitated by what Israel frequently slams as the UN body’s years-long anti-Israeli majority which has a long record of a bias slant.
Bezeq CEO Stella Handler published a Facebook post 12 days ago in which she made public the overture she received from the UN’s Human Rights Commissioner. After the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted her, Handler took the post down.
“Here’s something the UN’s Human Rights Council doesn’t want you know: we’ve received a message from Special Assistant to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mohammad Ali Alnsour. Alnsour communicated to us that Bezeq was to be included on a list of Israeli companies operating in the West Bank. He asked us to keep that information confidential and to not publically comment on it,” Handler’s Facebook post said.
“Before we get started, here’s some background about the UN’s Human Rights Council. Since it was founded in 2006, it published 68 decisions denouncingIsrael, making up 50 percent of the total resolutions pertaining to specific countries the council has made. Not North Korea, not Syria, not Sudan and not Yemen were afforded such attention,” the post continued.
“We will not be cooperating with a move that’s entirely anti-Israeli propaganda. Despite the council’s attempts to harm Israel by harming Bezeq, we give you our solemn commitment to keep focused on what we do best: providing all of Israel’s citizens with quality service, to provide our employees with a fair workplace and to manufacture profits for our shareholders. That is our role as Israel’s communications infrastructures company,” Handler concluded.
EINDE ARTIKEL
BDS NEDERLAND
PROFITEURS VAN DE BEZETTING: DE VOLLEDIGE VN LIJST
In vervolg op ons bericht gisteren over de publicatie door de Verenigde Naties van de lijst met bedrijven die geld verdienen aan de bezetting van Palestijnse gebieden door Israël, hieronder de volledige lijst van 112 bedrijven, overgenomen van middleeasteye. Bij deze lijst moet worden opgemerkt dat hij zeker nog niet compleet is. Een simpel voorbeeld is Albert Hein/de HEMA. Zo zijn er, alleen al in Nederland, meer voorbeelden te noemen. Er is dus nog werk aan de winkel voor de landelijke organisaties, met het oog op de actualisatie van de lijst die volgens de betreffende VN-resolutie elk jaar moet plaatsvinden.
| Bedrijf | Land | |
| 1 | Afikim Public Transportation Ltd. | Israel |
| 2 | Airbnb Inc. | United States |
| 3 | American Israeli Gas Corporation Ltd. | Israel |
| 4 | Amir Marketing and Investments in Agriculture Ltd. | Israel |
| 5 | Amos Hadar Properties and Investments Ltd. | Israel |
| 6 | Angel Bakeries | Israel |
| 7 | Archivists Ltd. | Israel |
| 8 | Ariel Properties Group | Israel |
| 9 | Ashtrom Industries Ltd. | Israel |
| 10 | Ashtrom Properties Ltd. | Israel |
| 11 | Avgol Industries 1953 Ltd. | Israel |
| 12 | Bank Hapoalim B.M. | Israel |
| 13 | Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. | Israel |
| 14 | Bank of Jerusalem Ltd. | Israel |
| 15 | Beit Haarchiv Ltd. | Israel |
| 16 | Bezeq, Israel Telecommunication Corp | Israel |
| 17 | Booking.com B.V. | Netherlands |
| 18 | C Mer Industries Ltd. | Israel |
| 19 | Café Café Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 20 | Caliber 3 | Israel |
| 21 | Cellcom Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 22 | Cherriessa Ltd. | Israel |
| 23 | Chish Nofei Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 24 | Citadis Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 25 | Comasco Ltd. | Israel |
| 26 | Darban Investments Ltd. | Israel |
| 27 | Delek Group Ltd. | Israel |
| 28 | Delta Israel | Israel |
| 29 | Dor Alon Energy in Israel 1988 Ltd. | Israel |
| 30 | Egis Rail | France |
| 31 | Egged, Israel Transportation Cooperative Society Ltd. | Israel |
| 32 | Energix Renewable Energies Ltd. | Israel |
| 33 | EPR Systems Ltd. | Israel |
| 34 | Extal Ltd. | Israel |
| 35 | Expedia Group Inc. | United States |
| 36 | Field Produce Ltd. | Israel |
| 37 | Field Produce Marketing Ltd. | Israel |
| 38 | First International Bank of Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 39 | Galshan Shvakim Ltd. | Israel |
| 40 | General Mills Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 41 | Hadiklaim Israel Date Growers Cooperative Ltd. | Israel |
| 42 | Hot Mobile Ltd. | Israel |
| 43 | Hot Telecommunications Systems Ltd. | Israel |
| 44 | Industrial Buildings Corporation Ltd. | Israel |
| 45 | Israel Discount Bank Ltd. | Israel |
| 46 | Israel Railways Corporation Ltd. | Israel |
| 47 | Italek Ltd. | Israel |
| 48 | JC Bamford Excavators Ltd. | United Kingdom |
| 49 | Jerusalem Economy Ltd. | Israel |
| 50 | Kavim Public Transportation Ltd. | Israel |
| 51 | Lipski Installation and Sanitation Ltd. | Israel |
| 52 | Matrix IT Ltd. | Israel |
| 53 | Mayer Davidov Garages Ltd. | Israel |
| 54 | Mekorot Water Company Ltd. | Israel |
| 55 | Mercantile Discount Bank Ltd. | Israel |
| 56 | Merkavim Transportation Technologies Ltd. | Israel |
| 57 | Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. | Israel |
| 58 | Modi’in Ezrachi Group Ltd. | Israel |
| 59 | Mordechai Aviv Taasiot Beniyah 1973 Ltd. | Israel |
| 60 | Motorola Solutions Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 61 | Municipal Bank Ltd. | Israel |
| 62 | Naaman Group Ltd. | Israel |
| 63 | Nof Yam Security Ltd. | Israel |
| 64 | Ofertex Industries 1997 Ltd. | Israel |
| 65 | Opodo Ltd. | United Kingdom |
| 66 | Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal Ltd. | Israel |
| 67 | Partner Communications Company Ltd. | Israel |
| 68 | Paz Oil Company Ltd. | Israel |
| 69 | Pelegas Ltd. | Israel |
| 70 | Pelephone Communications Ltd. | Israel |
| 71 | Proffimat S.R. Ltd. | Israel |
| 72 | Rami Levy Chain Stores Hashikma Marketing 2006 Ltd. | Israel |
| 73 | Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing Communication Ltd. | Israel |
| 74 | Re/Max Israel | Israel |
| 75 | Shalgal Food Ltd. | Israel |
| 76 | Shapir Engineering and Industry Ltd. | Israel |
| 77 | Shufersal Ltd. | Israel |
| 78 | Sonol Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 79 | Superbus Ltd. | Israel |
| 80 | Supergum Industries 1969 Ltd. | Israel |
| 81 | Tahal Group International B.V. | Netherlands |
| 82 | TripAdvisor Inc. | United States |
| 83 | Twitoplast Ltd. | Israel |
| 84 | Unikowsky Maoz Ltd. | Israel |
| 85 | YES | Israel |
| 86 | Zakai Agricultural Know-how and inputs Ltd. | Israel |
| 87 | ZF Development and Construction | Israel |
| 88 | ZMH Hammermand Ltd. | Israel |
| 89 | Zorganika Ltd. | Israel |
| 90 | Zriha Hlavin Industries Ltd. | Israel |
| 91 | Alon Blue Square Israel Ltd. | Israel |
| 92 | Alstom S.A. | France |
| 93 | Altice Europe N.V. | Netherlands |
| 94 | Amnon Mesilot Ltd. | Israel |
| 95 | Ashtrom Group Ltd. | Israel |
| 96 | Booking Holdings Inc. | United States |
| 97 | Brand Industries Ltd. | Israel |
| 98 | Delta Galil Industries Ltd. | Israel |
| 99 | eDreams ODIGEO S.A. | Luxembourg |
| 100 | Egis S.A. | France |
| 101 | Electra Ltd. | Israel |
| 102 | Export Investment Company Ltd. | Israel |
| 103 | General Mills Inc. | United States |
| 104 | Hadar Group | Israel |
| 105 | Hamat Group Ltd. | Israel |
| 106 | Indorama Ventures P.C.L. | Thailand |
| 107 | Kardan N.V. | Netherlands |
| 108 | Mayer’s Cars and Trucks Co. Ltd. | Israel |
| 109 | Motorola Solutions Inc. | United States |
| 110 | Natoon Group | Israel |
| 111 | Villar International Ltd. | Israel |
| 112 | Greenkote P.L.C. |
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Foto: HEMA, volgend jaar op de lijst? (Facebook / Canadian Jewish News)
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GAZA IS NOG STEEDS BEZET GEBIED!LEES:
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHISRAEL: ”DISENGAGEMENT” WILL NOT END GAZA OCCUPATION
Israeli Government Still Holds Responsibility for Welfare of Civilians
28 OCTOBER 2004
The Israeli government’s plan to remove troops and Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip would not end Israel’s occupation of the territory. As an occupying power, Israel will retain responsibility for the welfare of Gaza’s civilian population.
Under the “disengagement” plan endorsed Tuesday by the Knesset, Israeli forces will keep control over Gaza’s borders, coastline and airspace, and will reserve the right to launch incursions at will. Israel will continue to wield overwhelming power over the territory’s economy and its access to trade.
“The removal of settlers and most military forces will not end Israel’s control over Gaza,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division. “Israel plans to reconfigure its occupation of the territory, but it will remain an occupying power with responsibility for the welfare of the civilian population.”
Under the plan, Israel is scheduled to remove settlers and military bases protecting the settlers from the Gaza Strip and four isolated West Bank Jewish settlements by the end of 2005. The Israeli military will remain deployed on Gaza’s southern border, and will reposition its forces to other areas just outside the territory.
In addition to controlling the borders, coastline and airspace, Israel will continue to control Gaza’s telecommunications, water, electricity and sewage networks, as well as the flow of people and goods into and out of the territory. Gaza will also continue to use Israeli currency.
A World Bank study on the economic effects of the plan determined that “disengagement” would ease restrictions on mobility inside Gaza. But the study also warned that the removal of troops and settlers would have little positive effect unless accompanied by an opening of Gaza’s borders. If the borders are sealed to labor and trade, the plan “would create worse hardship than is seen today.”
The plan also explicitly envisions continued home demolitions by the Israeli military to expand the “buffer zone” along the Gaza-Egypt border. According to a report released last week by Human Rights Watch, the Israeli military has illegally razed nearly 1,600 homes since 2000 to create this buffer zone, displacing some 16,000 Palestinians. Israeli officials have called for the buffer zone to be doubled, which would result in the destruction of one-third of the Rafah refugee camp.
In addition, the plan states that disengagement “will serve to dispel the claims regarding Israel’s responsibility for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” A report by legal experts from the Israeli Justice Ministry, Foreign Ministry and the military made public on Sunday, however, reportedly acknowledges that disengagement “does not necessarily exempt Israel from responsibility in the evacuated territories.”
If Israel removes its troops from Gaza, the Palestinian National Authority will maintain responsibility for security within the territory—to the extent that Israel allows Palestinian police the authority and capacity. Palestinian security forces will still have a duty to protect civilians within Gaza and to prevent indiscriminate attacks on Israeli civilians.
“Under international law, the test for determining whether an occupation exists is effective control by a hostile army, not the positioning of troops,” Whitson said. “Whether the Israeli army is inside Gaza or redeployed around its periphery and restricting entrance and exit, it remains in control.”
Under international law, the duties of an occupying power are detailed in the Fourth Geneva Convention and The Hague Regulations. According to The Hague Regulations, a “territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.”
The “disengagement plan,” as adopted by the Israeli Cabinet on June 6, 2004, and endorsed by the Knesset on October 26, is available at:
http://www.pmo.gov.il/nr/exeres/C5E1ACE3-9834-414E-9512-8E5F509E9A4D.htm.
EINDE VERKLARING HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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”1391, or 63%, of the 2,202 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in Operation “Protective Edge” did not take part in the hostilities. Of these, 526 – a quarter of all Palestinians killed in the operation – were children under eighteen years of age. These are some of the figures published today by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem to mark two years since the operation, which took place in July-August 2014.
50 DAYS: MORE THAN 500 CHILDREN: FACTS AND FIGURES ON FATALITIES IN GAZA,
SUMMER 2014
”We explicitly and loudly condemned the direct shelling of the Al Aqsa hospital on July 21st that killed at least four people”
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
NO WONDER GAZANS ARE ANGRY.THE RED CROSS CAN’T PROTECT THEM
25 JULI 2014
ZWEEDSE FOTOGRAAF WINT WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2012.
MISDADEN ISRAELISCHE POLITIEK IN BEELD GEBRACHT
ASTRID ESSED
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RAPPORT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:
ISRAEL’S APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS”A CRUEL
SYSTEM OF DOMINATION AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
RAPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
ISRAELI APARTHEID: ”A THRESHOLD CROSSED”
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OVER DE ILLEGALITEIT VAN DE ISRAELISCHE NEDERZETTINGEN,VOLGENS HET INTERNATIONAAL RECHT
HET INTERNATIONALE RODE KRUIS:
”It is unlawful under the Fourth Geneva Convention for an occupying power to transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies. This means that international humanitarian law prohibits the establishment of settlements, as these are a form of population transfer into occupied territory”
ICRC.ORG [INTERNATIONALE RODE KRUIS]
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SETTLEMENTS
05-10-2010 FAQ
When a territory is placed under the authority of a hostile army, the rules of international humanitarian law dealing with occupation apply. Occupation confers certain rights and obligations on the occupying power.
- International Review of the Red Cross, No 885, special issue on Occupation
- Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49.
Prohibited actions include forcibly transferring protected persons from the occupied territories to the territory of the occupying power.
It is unlawful under the Fourth Geneva Convention for an occupying power to transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies. This means that international humanitarian law prohibits the establishment of settlements, as these are a form of population transfer into occupied territory. Any measure designed to expand or consolidate settlements is also illegal. Confiscation of land to build or expand settlements is similarly prohibited.
EINDE VERKLARING INTERNATIONALE RODE KRUIS
”The establishment of the settlements contravenes international humanitarian law (IHL), which states that an occupying power may not relocate its own citizens to the occupied territory or make permanent changes to that territory, unless these are needed for imperative military needs, in the narrow sense of the term, or undertaken for the benefit of the local population.”
SETTLEMENTS
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SETTLER VIOLENCE = STATE VIOLENCE
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ZIE NOOT 3
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