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What we called this atrocity? Robin Hood 1212 13:40, 30 July 2006 (UTC) The building was striked TWO times. Robin Hood 1212 13:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
The article on the site is a complete distortion of facts. In the first paragraph it is claimed that “after some time the building collapsed”, that’s not what the whole world thinks. Who wrote this dribble? IDF Spokesperson? Utter rubbish. Becase
If you are going to call this article Second Qana Shelling, then to be consistent you should change the name of the 1996 shelling of Qana article to First Qana Shelling. Cymruisrael 13:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
But it wasn't a shelling. It was an air strike. This article shouldn't be called a shelling, that is misleading.
Depends who you believe "unsigned". (me)
IMO, there should be a disambig statement at the top of each article like, This article is about the 2006 shelling. For the shelling of Qana during Operation Grapes of Wrath, see 1996 shelling of Qana. - Fsotrain09 14:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
It is a terrible tragedy, but it is not a massacre because it was not intentional. There was a Hezbollah outpost nearby. Israel realized that this was a terrible mistake and that is why they are having a ceasefire for 48 hours, but it shouldn't be viewed as a massacre. -- Sagtkd 00:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
What ceasefire? They violated that too..These people have no ethics. Of course it was intentional. No one believes them anymore. Where should libanese go? There are no safe routes to flee, and every moving car is a target...even ambulances! When they hit UN post killing 4 ppl, they had been already warned not to do so several times. The bastards r bloodthursty, they are up for a genocide. And we still call it another air strike...What do u expect them to say? That they intentioally killed so many children? Its a massacre! 213.5.32.247 22:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone saying it should be named "massacre" needs to go read up on WP:NPOV. The current article name seems fine; it's more descriptive than merely "bombing" or "massacre" anyway. -- Cyde↔Weys 22:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the claim of a rocket-launching site in the first paragraph should be attributed to Israel instead of being stated as a fact, since it has not been independently verified.
You can read this article about photos smuggled out of Lebanon clearly showing how Hezbollah is using civilian areas as firing grounds. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,19960056-5006301,00.html I think this qualifies as a reliable source. Yossiea 13:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html and here's a news article regarding the strike: http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/8997.htm The fact that the collapse happened hours after the strike and nobody was allowed access to the site until AFTER the collapse has to make people stop and contemplate whether the strike caused the collapse or other items caused the collapse. Yossiea 15:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Who is a witness that saw it was an Air strike that caused a house to collapse?
There are other instances but I used 2 examples- one convoy fleeing north- one convoy moving East from Syria. 82.29.227.171 21:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Please be clear. The BBC article about this specific incident which is cited reports that "Israeli officials say leaflets had been dropped in the area warning civilians to leave their homes" then follows that with the point that "with the number of civilian cars and convoys which have been bombed on the roads heading to Tyre, many residents chose to ignore the Israeli warnings." This is rather different from saying that Israel was bombing roads. .. dave souza, talk 09:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
In the Reaction section, it states that Condoleeza Rice said: "I think it is time to get to a ceasefire", and it gives footnote 26 (the Washington Post). But nowhere in the linked Post article does it have the specified quotation. What gives? Does anyone have a direct source for this quote or is it BS?
"Rice said, “I called him and told him that I was not coming today because I felt very strongly that my work toard a ceasefire is really here, today.” Siniora, however, had made it clear in a televised address that her trip would have been pointless." [6] 82.29.227.171 14:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
154.20.89.204 00:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)Tess
CNN and the iran UN representative claim more than 60 killed in the air stike.. get the figures right!!
Every source I can find dated July 31st or later says more than 50 civilians killed, with the most commonly cited number 56. In the intro section of the article there is a conflicting source. The source cited at the end of this sentence - "According to the Red Cross, the collapse killed at least 28, out of which 19 were children, and injured many others. [2][3]" - source [3] says "More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children". I don't see how someone has cited this source to support the claim that only 28 civilians were killed. Please update the intro with the current accepted number of dead. JBull 07:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
"There are 50 more innocent dollars Rice can add to her already Iraqi-filled wallet" - source? Dysmorodrepanis 03:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Is putting a reference in the title of Reactions right out? I guess I haven't seen it come up before. -- Adamrush 13:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I have tried downloading the video of the bombing from the link on this article and when trying to play it using MPlayer it froze and didn't allow me to play anymore videos (after restarting). I'm using the CentOS distribution of Linux and expierienced problems later on with Firefox after updating. When trying to access later on the site from which I downloaded the video ( [8]) using Konqueror all my window borders disapeared. If anyone else is having problems with the video ( [9]) I would suggest removing it from the article.
Jazzman 19:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
An article of this nature ought to try to list the names of the victims since they are what define the event. Is this possible? Robert Fisk has identified three of the children from the tags: "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven Qana", "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 Qana", "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one Qana." [10] I have not been able to find any articles where others are named. 24.86.12.143 19:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC) A from Vancouver
Dont think the timeline attributed to JPost article is right- they appear to have missed out a lot of detail in their reporting which Haaretz got from the press conference. Namely, the distances from the buildings, and the time between strikes. Residents say minutes, and two strikes, (did their timeline change?), IDF says hours between bombing1@midnight & bombing2 & a third bombing3.
"Israel Air Force, Brigadier General Amir Eshel. Speaking at a press conference at the Kirya military complex in Tel Aviv last night 30 July, Eshel said that of three Israeli air strikes on Qana early Sunday, only the first strike hit the building in which the civilians were staying. The other two hit areas at least 400 meters away.
I can't say whether the house collapsed at 12 A.M. or at 8 A.M.," said Eshel. "According to foreign press reports, and this is one of the reports we are relying on, the house collapsed at 8 A.M. We do not have testimony regarding the time of the collapse. If the house collapsed at 12 A.M., it is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it."
"In the second IAF strike on Qana, which took place at around 2:30 A.M. Sunday, IAF planes bombed two targets located about 500 meters from the building that collapsed, and in the third strike, at around 7:30 A.M., three targets were bombed 460 meters away from the building, Eshel said. He told reporters that an analysis of photographs of the strikes, taken by cameras installed in the warplanes, showed that the four bombs dropped during the second and third strikes hit the intended targets, and that an IAF plane sent on a photo sortie in the afternoon confirmed that the intended targets had been hit. " [11] 82.29.227.171 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone identify the Foreign press report refered to by General Amir Eshel? He seems to go from saying that there is more than one report and then says he is relying on a particular report.
This is the chilean goverment reaction. if some one could translate and add it in the international reactios. Thank's. Rakela 22:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
BBC was reporting eariler that there is some evidence that Hizbollah may have collapsed the building.
Where is the Picture of Victims ? Must be with prove that the bomb kill people.
And who is the pilot of IDF who shoot the bomb?
I've just removed several pieces of unsourced speculation from the article. Could people please take care not to add such material - it's prohibited by our no original research policy. -- ChrisO 07:48, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
HRW report into it- testimony from 2 that got bombed taken by HRW also- worth beefing up the Residents timeline with perhaps [12]
Also probably worth quoting the report a little eg.
"Human Rights Watch researchers who visited Qana on July 31, the day after the attack, did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. Similarly, none of the dozens of international journalists, rescue workers and international observers who visited Qana on July 30 and 31 reported seeing any evidence of Hezbollah military presence in or around the home. Rescue workers recovered no bodies of apparent Hezbollah fighters from inside or near the building."
And there is a list of names of the dead- can some of the conspiracy theorists start tracking down if they were residents of Qana or some other town please? Thank you. 82.29.227.171 21:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently added Category:War crimes to the article but it was removed by User:Smyth. The same category was re-added by User:Mani1 and re-removed also by User:Smyth saying it is a controversial category. Quoting from war crime "war crime is a punishable offense under International Law, for violations of the laws of war" and from Laws of war which states that the main sources for laws of war are the United Nations Charter, the Geneva conventions and the Hague conventions. Also, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict is categorized under war crimes. I can't really see how bombing a builiding and killing 54 civilians including children is not a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and may not be regarded as war crime!-- Wedian 14:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC).
"This is the talk page for discussing changes to the 2006 Qana airstrike article." 141.154.225.213 22:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
First of all, the leaflets do not work at all considering that those people do not have any supply to leave their position in a desert hot place. With no basic suppliers they do not even have GAS to move away with cars or other vehicles as the GAS STATIONS have been bombed. There have been constant information that the roads including the cars fleeing have been bombed, 2 days ago BBC reporter moving along with his cameraman and mobilized civilians in a road from south have been shelled and it has been recorded. So moving away is fatal, staying is fatal and eveybody talks about conventions which are very improper in these conditions as Hezbollah hijacks Lebanese people which should be out of war as Israel claims it is not a war to Lebanon. Let's assume that Israel is not guilty in terms of LAW but definately NOT INNOCENT. At last the world community shall know the mistakes that Israel did and most probably in future they will be guilty, guilty of war crimes. And I think if further investigation was to be done Israel would be a war criminal. What is going on is a mere DOUBLE STANDART my friends and no one is going to speak like a lawyer here mocking up with other peoples ideas or sayings, here is not a court no one should always speak superlogically, this is a discussion page, please be human, at least a bit this is not a humiliation just a WISH. And sorry for my English if it is meager I am not native. ( cantikadam 13:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC))
Allright, mine is just a comment I am profoundly eager to improve Wİkipedia's liability and its creditibility.( cantikadam 14:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC))
Something doesn't add up with that, the IDF claims it attacked the building somewhere between 12-1am. The building collapsed at 8am.
The hour gap suggests this is not a direct IDF's strike that made the building fall down, but something else, it could very well be Hezbolla's own rockets that took it down, as it was known there is a large amount of ammunition in that place.
If it really took the building 8 hours to collapse after the israeli strike, how come there were still more than 60 people in the building, & do you think Hezbolla would let anybody enter the building they were hiding there explosives or weapons in there.
I belive that in order to count this as a war crime, it would have to be delibirated aginst the civilians, according to this information, this is not the case.
I guess we have to wait and see as more information about this reveals itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZeroLeveL ( talk • contribs)
. The links in the 'Lebanon position' section used to support IDF claims are in Hebrew, can we get some corroboration of the IDF claims of explosives/timeline in English? 82.29.227.171 21:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)"Witnesses at the scene corroborated the IDF claim that the strike on the building, which is located in the Hariva neighborhood of Qana, was carried out at 1:00 A.M. After the initial strike, some of the building's residents exited in an attempt to survey the damage, in effect saving themselves. A few minutes later, IAF planes struck the building once again, causing the walls to collapse on the residents who did not vacate, killing them in the process. Arab media began reporting on the incident after dawn Sunday, approximately seven hours after the strike. The reports did not note, however, that the building collapsed a short time prior to Arab journalists' arrival on the scene" [21]
Regarding the "war crime" issue, I'm not sure that there is a definitive definition in international law. But, attacking a civilian target and/or disregarding civlian casualties (even though they are unintended) or even carrying out an attack where there the attacker knows that there is a high risk of civilian casualties is often described as a war crime (or at least being against the Geneva Convention). Are there any experts on intl. law available here? Osli73 15:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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What we called this atrocity? Robin Hood 1212 13:40, 30 July 2006 (UTC) The building was striked TWO times. Robin Hood 1212 13:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
The article on the site is a complete distortion of facts. In the first paragraph it is claimed that “after some time the building collapsed”, that’s not what the whole world thinks. Who wrote this dribble? IDF Spokesperson? Utter rubbish. Becase
If you are going to call this article Second Qana Shelling, then to be consistent you should change the name of the 1996 shelling of Qana article to First Qana Shelling. Cymruisrael 13:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
But it wasn't a shelling. It was an air strike. This article shouldn't be called a shelling, that is misleading.
Depends who you believe "unsigned". (me)
IMO, there should be a disambig statement at the top of each article like, This article is about the 2006 shelling. For the shelling of Qana during Operation Grapes of Wrath, see 1996 shelling of Qana. - Fsotrain09 14:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
It is a terrible tragedy, but it is not a massacre because it was not intentional. There was a Hezbollah outpost nearby. Israel realized that this was a terrible mistake and that is why they are having a ceasefire for 48 hours, but it shouldn't be viewed as a massacre. -- Sagtkd 00:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
What ceasefire? They violated that too..These people have no ethics. Of course it was intentional. No one believes them anymore. Where should libanese go? There are no safe routes to flee, and every moving car is a target...even ambulances! When they hit UN post killing 4 ppl, they had been already warned not to do so several times. The bastards r bloodthursty, they are up for a genocide. And we still call it another air strike...What do u expect them to say? That they intentioally killed so many children? Its a massacre! 213.5.32.247 22:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone saying it should be named "massacre" needs to go read up on WP:NPOV. The current article name seems fine; it's more descriptive than merely "bombing" or "massacre" anyway. -- Cyde↔Weys 22:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the claim of a rocket-launching site in the first paragraph should be attributed to Israel instead of being stated as a fact, since it has not been independently verified.
You can read this article about photos smuggled out of Lebanon clearly showing how Hezbollah is using civilian areas as firing grounds. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,19960056-5006301,00.html I think this qualifies as a reliable source. Yossiea 13:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html and here's a news article regarding the strike: http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/8997.htm The fact that the collapse happened hours after the strike and nobody was allowed access to the site until AFTER the collapse has to make people stop and contemplate whether the strike caused the collapse or other items caused the collapse. Yossiea 15:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Who is a witness that saw it was an Air strike that caused a house to collapse?
There are other instances but I used 2 examples- one convoy fleeing north- one convoy moving East from Syria. 82.29.227.171 21:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Please be clear. The BBC article about this specific incident which is cited reports that "Israeli officials say leaflets had been dropped in the area warning civilians to leave their homes" then follows that with the point that "with the number of civilian cars and convoys which have been bombed on the roads heading to Tyre, many residents chose to ignore the Israeli warnings." This is rather different from saying that Israel was bombing roads. .. dave souza, talk 09:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
In the Reaction section, it states that Condoleeza Rice said: "I think it is time to get to a ceasefire", and it gives footnote 26 (the Washington Post). But nowhere in the linked Post article does it have the specified quotation. What gives? Does anyone have a direct source for this quote or is it BS?
"Rice said, “I called him and told him that I was not coming today because I felt very strongly that my work toard a ceasefire is really here, today.” Siniora, however, had made it clear in a televised address that her trip would have been pointless." [6] 82.29.227.171 14:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
154.20.89.204 00:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)Tess
CNN and the iran UN representative claim more than 60 killed in the air stike.. get the figures right!!
Every source I can find dated July 31st or later says more than 50 civilians killed, with the most commonly cited number 56. In the intro section of the article there is a conflicting source. The source cited at the end of this sentence - "According to the Red Cross, the collapse killed at least 28, out of which 19 were children, and injured many others. [2][3]" - source [3] says "More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children". I don't see how someone has cited this source to support the claim that only 28 civilians were killed. Please update the intro with the current accepted number of dead. JBull 07:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
"There are 50 more innocent dollars Rice can add to her already Iraqi-filled wallet" - source? Dysmorodrepanis 03:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Is putting a reference in the title of Reactions right out? I guess I haven't seen it come up before. -- Adamrush 13:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I have tried downloading the video of the bombing from the link on this article and when trying to play it using MPlayer it froze and didn't allow me to play anymore videos (after restarting). I'm using the CentOS distribution of Linux and expierienced problems later on with Firefox after updating. When trying to access later on the site from which I downloaded the video ( [8]) using Konqueror all my window borders disapeared. If anyone else is having problems with the video ( [9]) I would suggest removing it from the article.
Jazzman 19:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
An article of this nature ought to try to list the names of the victims since they are what define the event. Is this possible? Robert Fisk has identified three of the children from the tags: "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven Qana", "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 Qana", "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one Qana." [10] I have not been able to find any articles where others are named. 24.86.12.143 19:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC) A from Vancouver
Dont think the timeline attributed to JPost article is right- they appear to have missed out a lot of detail in their reporting which Haaretz got from the press conference. Namely, the distances from the buildings, and the time between strikes. Residents say minutes, and two strikes, (did their timeline change?), IDF says hours between bombing1@midnight & bombing2 & a third bombing3.
"Israel Air Force, Brigadier General Amir Eshel. Speaking at a press conference at the Kirya military complex in Tel Aviv last night 30 July, Eshel said that of three Israeli air strikes on Qana early Sunday, only the first strike hit the building in which the civilians were staying. The other two hit areas at least 400 meters away.
I can't say whether the house collapsed at 12 A.M. or at 8 A.M.," said Eshel. "According to foreign press reports, and this is one of the reports we are relying on, the house collapsed at 8 A.M. We do not have testimony regarding the time of the collapse. If the house collapsed at 12 A.M., it is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it."
"In the second IAF strike on Qana, which took place at around 2:30 A.M. Sunday, IAF planes bombed two targets located about 500 meters from the building that collapsed, and in the third strike, at around 7:30 A.M., three targets were bombed 460 meters away from the building, Eshel said. He told reporters that an analysis of photographs of the strikes, taken by cameras installed in the warplanes, showed that the four bombs dropped during the second and third strikes hit the intended targets, and that an IAF plane sent on a photo sortie in the afternoon confirmed that the intended targets had been hit. " [11] 82.29.227.171 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone identify the Foreign press report refered to by General Amir Eshel? He seems to go from saying that there is more than one report and then says he is relying on a particular report.
This is the chilean goverment reaction. if some one could translate and add it in the international reactios. Thank's. Rakela 22:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
BBC was reporting eariler that there is some evidence that Hizbollah may have collapsed the building.
Where is the Picture of Victims ? Must be with prove that the bomb kill people.
And who is the pilot of IDF who shoot the bomb?
I've just removed several pieces of unsourced speculation from the article. Could people please take care not to add such material - it's prohibited by our no original research policy. -- ChrisO 07:48, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
HRW report into it- testimony from 2 that got bombed taken by HRW also- worth beefing up the Residents timeline with perhaps [12]
Also probably worth quoting the report a little eg.
"Human Rights Watch researchers who visited Qana on July 31, the day after the attack, did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. Similarly, none of the dozens of international journalists, rescue workers and international observers who visited Qana on July 30 and 31 reported seeing any evidence of Hezbollah military presence in or around the home. Rescue workers recovered no bodies of apparent Hezbollah fighters from inside or near the building."
And there is a list of names of the dead- can some of the conspiracy theorists start tracking down if they were residents of Qana or some other town please? Thank you. 82.29.227.171 21:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently added Category:War crimes to the article but it was removed by User:Smyth. The same category was re-added by User:Mani1 and re-removed also by User:Smyth saying it is a controversial category. Quoting from war crime "war crime is a punishable offense under International Law, for violations of the laws of war" and from Laws of war which states that the main sources for laws of war are the United Nations Charter, the Geneva conventions and the Hague conventions. Also, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict is categorized under war crimes. I can't really see how bombing a builiding and killing 54 civilians including children is not a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and may not be regarded as war crime!-- Wedian 14:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC).
"This is the talk page for discussing changes to the 2006 Qana airstrike article." 141.154.225.213 22:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
First of all, the leaflets do not work at all considering that those people do not have any supply to leave their position in a desert hot place. With no basic suppliers they do not even have GAS to move away with cars or other vehicles as the GAS STATIONS have been bombed. There have been constant information that the roads including the cars fleeing have been bombed, 2 days ago BBC reporter moving along with his cameraman and mobilized civilians in a road from south have been shelled and it has been recorded. So moving away is fatal, staying is fatal and eveybody talks about conventions which are very improper in these conditions as Hezbollah hijacks Lebanese people which should be out of war as Israel claims it is not a war to Lebanon. Let's assume that Israel is not guilty in terms of LAW but definately NOT INNOCENT. At last the world community shall know the mistakes that Israel did and most probably in future they will be guilty, guilty of war crimes. And I think if further investigation was to be done Israel would be a war criminal. What is going on is a mere DOUBLE STANDART my friends and no one is going to speak like a lawyer here mocking up with other peoples ideas or sayings, here is not a court no one should always speak superlogically, this is a discussion page, please be human, at least a bit this is not a humiliation just a WISH. And sorry for my English if it is meager I am not native. ( cantikadam 13:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC))
Allright, mine is just a comment I am profoundly eager to improve Wİkipedia's liability and its creditibility.( cantikadam 14:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC))
Something doesn't add up with that, the IDF claims it attacked the building somewhere between 12-1am. The building collapsed at 8am.
The hour gap suggests this is not a direct IDF's strike that made the building fall down, but something else, it could very well be Hezbolla's own rockets that took it down, as it was known there is a large amount of ammunition in that place.
If it really took the building 8 hours to collapse after the israeli strike, how come there were still more than 60 people in the building, & do you think Hezbolla would let anybody enter the building they were hiding there explosives or weapons in there.
I belive that in order to count this as a war crime, it would have to be delibirated aginst the civilians, according to this information, this is not the case.
I guess we have to wait and see as more information about this reveals itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZeroLeveL ( talk • contribs)
. The links in the 'Lebanon position' section used to support IDF claims are in Hebrew, can we get some corroboration of the IDF claims of explosives/timeline in English? 82.29.227.171 21:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)"Witnesses at the scene corroborated the IDF claim that the strike on the building, which is located in the Hariva neighborhood of Qana, was carried out at 1:00 A.M. After the initial strike, some of the building's residents exited in an attempt to survey the damage, in effect saving themselves. A few minutes later, IAF planes struck the building once again, causing the walls to collapse on the residents who did not vacate, killing them in the process. Arab media began reporting on the incident after dawn Sunday, approximately seven hours after the strike. The reports did not note, however, that the building collapsed a short time prior to Arab journalists' arrival on the scene" [21]
Regarding the "war crime" issue, I'm not sure that there is a definitive definition in international law. But, attacking a civilian target and/or disregarding civlian casualties (even though they are unintended) or even carrying out an attack where there the attacker knows that there is a high risk of civilian casualties is often described as a war crime (or at least being against the Geneva Convention). Are there any experts on intl. law available here? Osli73 15:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)