The Times of Israel is blogging about Monday’s developments as they unfold.
The Head of Emergencies at the World Health Organization said governments providing “politically motivated” data on the coronavirus pandemic may face a political response.
Dr Michael Ryan says that “trying to give simplistic and simplistic answers to others is not a long-term winning strategy.”He told reporters in Geneva that “transparency, coherence, honesty” and the admission of mistakes can build trust.
Ryan speaks generally after being asked about the contradictory messages sent through the Brazilian about his reaction to COVID-19.
Ryan says coronavirus-related messages infrequently have “political connotations” and alludes to a saying that accepting as true takes years to build, but seconds to lose.
He says: “If communities understand that they are receiving data that is politically manipulated or that it has been controlled in a way that distorts the evidence, then sadly it goes back on the hook.”
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Opposition leader Yair Lapid responds to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s letter, in which the minister accused opposition politicians of undermining the government’s efforts to involve the coronavirus.
“You have failed miserably in handling the crisis, be it fitness and financial. Your dangerous, arrogant and irresponsible statements, and those of your close associates, as well as your inability to make decisions, have caused more than 1,000 deaths from coronavirus. , Lapid writes.
Lapid writes that he expects Netanyahu to “take responsibility, admit his failure and resign.”
Belarus says police arrested more than six hundred others during weekend protests and opposition says a senior official has been abducted from the streets as the government intensifies its efforts to end weeks of protests.
The Opposition Coordination Council said one of its prominent members, Maria Kolesnikova, “kidnapped through strangers in central Minsk” with a spokesman and executive secretary.
“We don’t know where they are,” He said, according to President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of “openly terror strategies.”
Lukashenko’s main rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, said the abductions aimed to alter the paintings of the Coordinating Council.
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The Turkish fiancée of homicidal journalist Jamal Khashoggi calls the ruling of a Saudi court overturning death sentences in her 2018 murder “farce.”
“Today’s resolution in Saudi Arabia was once again a total mockery of justice,” Hatice Cengiz said in a Twitter post.
“The foreign network will not settle for this charade.”
The Saudi resolution came after Khashoggi’s sons announced in May that they had “graced” the killers, paving the way for a less serious sentence, in a case that has tarnished the reputation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
None of the defendants were named in what was described as the court’s final ruling on the case.
“The Saudi government has finished the case without the world knowing who is guilty of Jamal’s murder,” Cengiz said.
“Who planned it, who ordered it, where is the body?These are the top unanswered questions,” he wrote.
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Netanyahu, speaking to journalists, said the outdoor protesters at his home turned off their cell phones to track the Shin Bet, which would place them insulated from coronavirus exposure in massive gatherings.
You are invited to take a look at the knowledge of the Ministry of Health that the weekly occasions do cause infections and says, “Let me smile.”
“They turned off their phones,” the prime minister said, adding that others were doing the same with detection.
Will Israel be locked up in Rosh Hashana?” I don’t know,” Netanyahu said, adding that the government is doing everything it can to, or at least stop, such a measure.
Crownvirus tsar Ronni Gamzu, speaking at the same press conference, told citizens of highly swollen spaces that the government’s decisions to impose restrictions in that country are personal.
“In fact, I have nothing to oppose you. We are all guilty of others,” he says.
In turn, he apologizes to the ultra-Orthodox network “if they feel we are labeling them” in particular as highly swollen areas.Most localities established for stricter regulations are predominantly Arab or ultra-Orthodox.
“Stop weddings, avoid meetings. We know it causes infections,” he says.
Gamzu also says he quits.
“The government is united. I understand that no one thinks otherwise,” he says.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Coronavirus Tsar Ronni Gamzu are visiting the program.
During his comments, Gantz also said that Israelis will have to stick to the rules.
“You’ll have to pay attention to the instructions. No rebellion …it is not an answer to what is happening in Israel,” he says, in a rebuke to Liberman’s call for disobedience.
As he speaks, Netanyahu tweets a letter to opposition leaders Yair Lapid, Avigdor Liberman, Naftali Bennett and Ayman Odeh.
In the letter, the prime minister says he expects politicians to “clarify to the public that regulations will have to be fully enforced.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the IDF Internal Front Command’s tactile tracking program, which according to the coronavirus tsar will be operational until November.
Netanyahu says he is “very impressed” with interministerial cooperation and says the program to cut the chains of infection may simply be “the one of his kind in the world.”
He promotes government efforts to engage the virus and rehabilitate the economy, even though Israel has experienced some of the worst infection rates in the world.
“The Israeli economy has some of what European economies have experienced,” he says.
The minister then admits that Israel’s COVID-19 rates are worrisome.
“We have a maximum infection rate” and it may accelerate, he admits.
The numbers are emerging because other people are not dressed in masks and there are demonstrations, Netanyahu says.
“Experts are involved in an increase in wonder in serious cases, ” and deaths,” he said.
Netanyahu says politicians are encouraging Israelis to avoid abiding by the government’s fitness regulations and to ignore police orders, referring to Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman.
“It’s anarchy,” he says.
“Be responsible, avoid this … behavior that doesn’t come to the case,” he says.
Islamic State claims its duty for a knife attack in Tunisia that killed one National Guard officer and wounded another, as security forces arrested more suspects.
In Sunday morning’s attack on a tourist district in the coastal city of Susa, an assailant organization rammed a National Guard patrol with a vehicle before stabbing officers.
They were chased by security forces before three of them were shot dead in a shooting that followed, the Guard said, calling the attack a terrorist act.
The Islamic State organization claims that its “combatants” carried out the attack, in a brief of its propaganda arm Amaq on the telegram messaging service.
“The images show that one of the attackers wore a T-shirt with an express inscription on Daesh (IS),” said Mokhtar Ben Nasr, former chief of the National Counter-Terrorism Commission, while stressing that it is difficult to identify the exact links.between the organization and its followers.
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The Gulf Cooperation Council is not easy to formally apologise for comments made through a leader of a minor Palestinian faction at a Convention of Palestinian Groups.
“It was the Palestinian staff who took the lead in the Gulf.all that Palestinian personnel are the most productive in the Gulf.The rest of the Gulf people learned from them and [the Palestinians] taught them to read, write, drive and everything,” Maeen Hamid, who leads a Palestinian faction known as the As-Sa’iqa Brigades, said at the conference.
“Your lifestyle will be a week of days if you leave us,” Hamid told the United Arab Emirates.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas convened the convention in Ramallah on Thursday night to discuss plans for national unity following the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
After decades of clandestine ties between Israel and the Gulf, there are many hypotheses about the Gulf country that will be the next to normalize with Israel.So far, GCC members have committed to the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for the creation of a Palestinian state prior to normalization with Israel.
Reaction only from the United Arab Emirates, but also from other Gulf countries, has been swift.GCC Secretary General Nayef al-Hajraf only condemns Hamid, but demands an apology from Abbas for what he calls “transgressions,” “incitement.”and “misrepresentations.”
“The assembly movements were broadcast on official Palestinian television channels, so there will have to be an official apology for the abuses, incitement and suspicion that some have spoken,” says al-Hajraf.
“We have an ancient and emotional connection with the Palestinian people, in each and every sense of the word.No tasteless user can claim to teach us to read and write,” said former Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa.
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Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin are discussing the possible joint production of a Russian coronavirus vaccine, the Kremlin said.
In early August, Russia said it had developed the world’s first vaccine to oppose the virus and claimed that more than one billion doses had been booked in 20 countries, Saudi Arabia.
Russia’s sovereign wealth finances much of the investment and knows Saudi Arabia as one of the countries interested in the vaccine.
On Monday, Putin and Salman discussed “collective efforts to trump the negative have an effect on the coronavirus pandemic,” said a Kremlin, noting that the appeal had been made at the initiative of the Saudi king.
“Special attention has been paid to the prospect of joint production of a vaccine developed through Russia,” he added.
It also states that Russia and Saudi Arabia, two major crude oil producers, would continue to “seek close coordination” for oil price stability.
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The Ministry of Health confirms that evening curfews will be implemented overnight, amid disagreements with the mayors of the 40 viral spotlights.
The ministry said local curfews in so-called red spaces with the highest rates of coronavirus infection would begin Tuesday night.
The final list of affected communities will be announced tonight, he said.
President Reuven Rivlin rebukes Yisrael Beytenu’s leader, Avigdor Liberman, for encouraging Israelis to abide by the rules of the virus.
“The fight against the coronavirus pandemic is a fight we all share,” Rivlin tweeted.”Calls for civil disobedience undermine the principles that guarantee our well-being and well-being of the entire population, especially crises.Leaders – opposition and coalition – please pay attention to what you say.
Saudi state television said definitive verdicts were reached in the case of Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, after his circle of relatives announced pardons that pardoned five.
The Criminal Court of Riyadh has definitive verdicts that oppose 8 people.
The court ordered a maximum sentence of 20 years for five years, one sentenced to 10 years and two to seven years in Array.
The trial was widely criticized by human rights teams and an independent UN investigator, who noted that senior officials were not convicted or suspected of ordering the murder.The independence of the court has also been questioned.
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The government is expanding existing fitness regulations for workplaces until October 5, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Regulations, which also require workplaces with more than 10 workers to designate a user guilty of fitness issues, are:
1.Keep a distance of two meters between workers as much as possible
2. Maintain hygiene and masks
3.Assignment of disinfection devices or appliances transmitted between employees
4. Plan workers in groups as much as possible
5. Temperatures at the entrance
6.La office will be sitting in normal positions two metres from each other or separated through a barrier, as much as possible
7.Eating and drinking will be done in employees’ rooms, possible
8.The employer will arrive at the paintings of the house as much as possible.
9.Elevators will not be occupied at more than 50% of their capacity.
10.For work in the workplace, assemblies shall be carried out with more workers than the number of workers allowed through the restriction of meetings, up to 50 persons, provided that the worker guilty of coronavirus matters certifies that the assembly simply cannot be held online and as long as the food is not served.
The High Court agreed to hear a petition filed through the parties to the conflict on plans to build an energy waste incineration plant in Maale Adumim, in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The project, called El Buen Samaritano, has already passed to the initial level of the tender.
Opponents must convince the court that the civil administration’s ruling, governing Maale Adumim, not to rezonize the site, reserved years ago for landfill, means that the public opposes the plan.
They have a new zoning plan for an incinerator that will allow local citizens to make their reviews clear before a resolution is taken.
The government and civilian leadership argued in vain that the petition was not heard because the assignment was at an “too early” stage.
Environment Protection Minister Gila Gamliel froze plans for waste energy recovery plants within Israel’s borders, but in the West Bank, to review waste policy in general.
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German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has come out of an induced coma and is reacting.
Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was transferred to Germany on 22 August, two days after fallen ill on a domestic flight to Russia.-he was a nerve agent, which led the German government last week to ask Russia to investigate the case.
The Berlin Charity Hospital says Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to finish the medically induced coma and relieve him of mechanical ventilation.He points out that he responds to the word, but “the long-term consequences of severe poisoning cannot yet be excluded.”
He has been in a coma in Berlin since being transferred to Germany for treatment.
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The tsar of the virus, Ronni Gamzu, apologizes for his comments opposed to the ultra-Orthodox rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.
Kanievsky reportedly told ultra-Orthodox scholars not to get tested for coronavirus, prompting a rebuke from Gamzu, who warned that he was endangering public health.
Haredi Mishpacha mag later reported that the rabbi was not referring to general policy, but to express cases about academics who had been evaluated two weeks earlier and had since maintained remote examination “capsules”.However, there were conflicting reports on the subject, with several media outlets adding Channel 12 and Walla News, which caused officials close to the rabbi to confirm his rejection of the evidence without offering warnings.
Gamzu told Channel 12: “I regret the false impression resulting from the sesathed publication of Rabbi Kanievsky’s comments, which I respect and admire, and I said.
“I reviewed it and it turns out that Rabbi Kanievsky never told him not to review it, however, it was a resolution based on the recommendation of several rabbis for express instances of yeshiva scholars in closed pills that had already passed the coronavirus tests, in accordance with the policies.”explained in advance, ” he said.
Gamzu’s comments opposed to Kanievsky provoked a wave of grievances among the Haredim, as well as calls for his resignation.
Night curfews in 40 highly infected towns and villages will begin tonight after the government does not finish a list of locations on time, Channel 12 reports.
The government passed the resolution on Sunday night, which must come into force tonight.
On Monday, the EU expressed “deep fear and sorrow” over Belgrade’s commitment to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, overembled the resumption of the Serbia-Kosovo talks.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti will meet in Brussels for a momentary circular of face-to-face talks negotiated by the EU on differences two decades after wartime clashes.
The assembly follows a high-profile white space summit where Vucic and Hoti signed appropriate statements on measures for economic relations and, in the case of Serbia, pleding to move their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The EU is still committed to the two-state solution in which Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel and a long-term Palestinian state, and its own diplomatic project is in Tel Aviv.
The bloc expects members like Serbia to align with their foreign policy positions.
“In this context, any diplomatic action that can simply call the EU’s unusual position on Jerusalem is a source of great fear and regret,” EU foreign secretary Peter Stano told reporters in Brussels.
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz also convicted Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman for asking Israelis to disobey government virus regulations.
He calls this comment “irresponsible” and urges him to use the pandemic to consolidate political capital.
“The coronavirus is there to move seats [to the Knesset] [from one party to another] or a means of political change,” Gantz says.
The Gaza Strip has noticed 182 new coronaviruses today, as a wave of threats to overwhelm the coastal enclave, Gaza’s ministry of fitness said.
Just two weeks ago, Gaza had no coronavirus samples and all newcomers were subjected to 21-day quarantine procedures upon arrival in the Strip.
Today, Gaza has 1,054 instances, with viral hot spots detected by the band.Hamas has declared a general blockade, but has recently eased restrictions in some less-affected spaces to allow others to return to work.new daily instances are accelerating.
Experts warn that Gaza’s fitness formula is weak and bruised by repeated wars between Israel and the Terrorist Group Hamas, as well as a 14-year blockade of Gaza through Israel and Egypt.Two weeks ago, Gaza had 87 enthusiasts for its 1.8 million inhabitants.
If the number of active instances exceeds 2,000, Hamas fitness officials warned last week, Gaza’s fitness formula could collapse.
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Russia’s foreign minister meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad shortly after landing in the Syrian capital for its first stopover since 2012.
Russia has been a best friend to Assad in Syria’s devastating nine-year civil war, offering his government in Damascus significant military, economic and political support. Russian troops have been fighting alongside Syrian government forces since 2015, and President Vladimir Putin has visited the war-torn country twice, adding in January this year.
Sergey Lavrov is in the midst of a serious economic crisis in Syria and the coronavirus pandemic.
The official Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported that a high-ranking Russian delegation, led by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, arrived in Syria on Sunday at a joint press convention to be held through Lavrov and Syria’s foreign minister Walid al-Moallem.later monday.
The newspaper quotes Syria’s ambassador to the Russian Federation, Riad Haddad, saying that the visit of the Russian delegation “is of particular importance, given the political and economic problems that will be discussed”, which, in his opinion, included progress in the paintings of a committee responsible for discussing imaginable amendments to the Syrian charter and western sanctions that oppose Syria , as well as counter-terrorism efforts.
Talks between the government, the opposition and civil society delegations resumed in Geneva last month, discussing a new letter imaginable to the war-torn country.THE UN envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, described the talks as an “open door” to an end.solution to the protracted confrontation in Syria.
The pandemic forced the postponement of an earlier assembly in March.
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The United Arab Emirates plans to send an official delegation to Israel on 22 September from the standardization efforts announced last month, Reuters news firm reports.
The report is not shown through the Israeli authorities.
A source cited through the report indicates that Israel will be shown after the announcement of a date for the washington signing rite of the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, probably in mid-September.
An Israeli and American delegation visited Abu Dhabi the week.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein of Likud condemns Yisrael Beytenu’s leader, Avigdor Liberman, for urging Israelis to forget about government regulations on viruses.
“Liberman is playing with fire,” Edelstein tweeted, accusing the opposition of acting “recklessly and irresponsiblely and taking credit for a fragile economic situation and physical fitness.Shame on you.”
Knesset President Yariv Levin remains in Liberman for his comment.
The call is “irresponsible,” Levin says, and “will create anarchy and jeopardize the suitability of all Israel.It’s the opposite of being a public example and leadership.”
Swiss Chancellor Ignazio Cassis said Monday that he had held “fruitful” talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on “peace, economic and human rights.”
The Swiss Embassy in Tehran has been dealing with the United States in Iran since ties were cut in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Cassis is expected to meet with President Hassan Rohani as part of a three-day trip to Tehran, celebrating a century of relations between Switzerland and Iran.
“Peace, economic progress and human rights – fruitful with my counterpart,” Cassis wrote on Twitter after the s.
According to the U.S. State Department, Secretary Mike Pompeo received a phone call with Cassis before his to Tehran, suggesting that discussions about Tehran-Washington relations are a cause for concern.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denied “speculation” on Monday and said it was a delayed planned scale due to the new coronavirus outbreak and is “unrelated to Iran and the United States.”
“I am pleased that we have combined the Swiss humanitarian chain for the transfer of food and medical supplies to the Iranian people,” Cassis said on Twitter.
Known by its acronym SHTA, the Swiss chain is a payment mechanism designed to allow food, medicine and other humanitarian aid to be sent to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Humanitarian goods are theoretically free of sanctions, however, foreign purchases of those materials are almost due to the fact that banks fear falling into the hands of the United States to do business with Iran.
The chain created and completed its first transaction before this year.
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Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid said he is ready to take a leadership vote for the first time since the party was founded eight years ago.
But Lapid says the party will only know how that vote will take place next year, after its first conference.
“There will be a vote. I’m satisfied, it’s time, but we’ll do it without pressure,” Lapid said, days after his colleague Ofer Shelah called the leadership primaries and said he would run.
“But no one gives me ultimatums. I will not allow trends that have destroyed parties like the Labour Party and Kadima to destroy Yesh Atid as well,” lapid said, referring to the number one battles debatable in other centre-left parties.
Excludes open primaries.
Greece will no longer limit the number of Israeli tourists allowed in the country or restrict them to a handful of cities, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
However, Israeli tourists still want negative control of the coronavirus 72 hours before traveling to Greece.
The announcement comes after Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi held talks with his Greek counterpart.
Ashkenazi said the easing of restrictions “is due to close ties” between Athens and Jerusalem.
The announcement comes despite the growing number of virus cases in Israel.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will soon announce that he will allow the party to hold public primaries and say a resolution will be made on how to elect the party leader until next year.
He will make the announcement at the faction’s weekly assembly, to the Hebrew reports.
Last week, a prominent Yesh Atid lawmaker said the centrist party had an “urgent” desire to hold leadership primaries, which would be the first since Lapid founded it in 2012.MP Ofer Shelah has announced that it will fight for leadership if the primaries are held before the national election, which many analysts will likely hold earlier next year.
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman urges Israelis to comply with “illegal” government fitness regulations.
“Regulations are illegal, don’t comply, but don’t use an unusual sense,” Liberman said, according to the Hebrew media.
Health and government officials are suffering to finalize a list of 40 villages that will be subject to a curfew in the middle of the night to stop the spread of coronavirus amid heavy repression through municipal leaders, according to public radio reports.
Nightly closings must begin tonight, after being approved through the company on Sunday.
Army radio quotes a fitness officer who said the list will be sealed at dusk.The 40 cities and towns are the so-called red spaces with infection rates.
Curfews will be in effect every day between 7 p.m.and 5 a.m.Non-essential businesses will be closed during curfew and schools will be closed at all times.
A homicide rate was filed against a Palestinian in the West Bank for stabbing Rabbi Shai Ohayon to death in the central city of Petah Tikva last month.
Prosecutors are filing rates of annoying homicide in annoying cases opposed to Khalil Abd abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, 46, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank.He is also charged with “illegal possession of a knife in cases of an act of terrorism.”
Court documents imply that Dweikat confessed the crime to investigators.Throughout his investigation, the defendant “showed no empathy, regret for eer the victim or his family,” the prosecutors said.
Ohayon, a father of four 39-year-olds.
The Ministry of Education says 172 academics and 62 teachers have COVID-19 since the school year began last week, according to the Walla news website.
Another 4,360 academics and 720 are quarantined.
Shin Bet security company says it foiled a Hamas bomb attack on Bilu Junction in central Israel.
He says an Israeli Arab, Mahmoud Miqdad, 30, was arrested on 15 August for the plot.Miqdad, the son of an Israeli Bedouin mother and a father from Gaza, was able to move freely between Israel and Gaza and was recruited through Hamas to unleash terrorist attacks opposed to the Israelis, he said.
At the end of 2019, Miqdad agreed to launch an attack. The Shin Bet says it then collected intelligence for Hamas, adding data on the location of The Iron Dome anti-missile batteries, and a target.In recent months, he has also been trained in Gaza in bomb making.
He set up the bomb in June and chose his goal: a bus stop at Bilu Junction, he says.
He arrested him before making the attempt and will be charged today for security breaches.
Nine members of his family, in addition to his brother, were also arrested for their imaginable involvement.
The Turkish girlfriend of murderous journalist Jamal Khashoggi calls a Saudi court ruling overturning the death sentences in his 2018 homicide a “farce”.
“Today’s resolution in Saudi Arabia is once again a mockery of justice,” Hatice Cengiz said in a Twitter post.
“The foreign network will not settle for this charade.”
The Saudi resolution came after Khashoggi’s sons announced in May that they had “graced” the killers, paving the way for a less serious sentence, in a case that has tarnished the reputation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
None of the defendants were named in what was described as the court’s final ruling on the case.
“The Saudi government is filing the case without the world knowing who is guilty of Jamal’s murder,” Cengiz said.
“Who planned it, who ordered it, where is the body?These are the maximum questions that remain unanswered,” he wrote.
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