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ByNicolasGarriga The Associated Press HRABOVE, UKRAINE Bow- ing to international pres- sure Monday, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel- held eastern Ukraine. With body parts decay- ing in sweltering heat and signs that evidence at the crash site was mishandled, anger in Western capitals has mounted at the rebels and their allies in Moscow. Their reluctant cooperation will soothe mourning fami- lies and help investigators, but may do little to recon- cile the East-West powers struggling over Ukraine's future. Russia's Defense Minis- try said it saw no evidence a missile was fired and de- nied involvement in the downing of Flight 17 — and suggested the Ukrainian military was at fault. Pres- ident Vladimir Putin spoke out but showed no sign of abandoning the separat- ists as fighting flared anew near the site of the crash. President Barack Obama accused the rebels of tam- pering with evidence and insulting victims' fami- lies, warning of new sanc- tions. Europeans will con- sider their own sanctions Tuesday. The bodies of the 298 vic- tims, most from the Nether- lands, have become a part of the conflict in Ukraine because they could hold ev- idence of what brought the plane down on July 17 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Grief turned to anger as families begged to get the bodies of their loved ones back, while the separatists held on to the remains. "Bodies are just lying there for three days in the hot sun. There are peo- ple who have this on their conscience," said Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son, Bryce, and his girl- friend Daisy Oehlers died on their way to a vacation in Bali, in an interview with The Associated Press in the Netherlands. "When I am in my bed at night, I see my son lying on the ground. ... They have to come home, not only those two. Every- body has to come home." International forensics experts finally gained ac- cess to the crash site Mon- day — an emotional expe- rience for the head of the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team, Peter Van Vliet. Seeing the wreck- age gave him goosebumps, he said. The team stumbled across remains that had not yet been removed and inspected the perished pas- sengers' luggage. In Torez, a rebel-held town 9 miles from the crash site, inspectors bowed heads and clasped hands before climbing aboard re- frigerated train cars hold- ing the collected bodies. Armed rebels surrounded them, while commut- ers boarded other trains nearby. The smell of decay was overwhelming. Workers wore masks, while pass- ersby twisted their faces in horror at the odor. Temper- atures hit 84 degrees F, and a train engineer told the AP that a power outage had hit the refrigeration system temporarily overnight. The rebels in Torez did not appear too concilia- tory as the tense day wore on. They repeatedly tried to block reporters from ac- cess to the visiting experts, growing more aggressive throughout. Late Monday, trucks ar- rived at the Torez station with plastic bags appar- ently filled with body parts, as well as piles of luggage — suitcases, backpacks, a purse with a Louis Vuitton label. Ukrainian authorities said the total number of bodies recovered was 282. Dutch investigators de- manded the separatists transfer the bodies imme- diately, and the rebels com- plied after several hours. UKRAINE Re be ls r el ea se t ra in with bodies from jet EVGENIYMALOLETKA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Deputy head of the OSCE mission to Ukraine Alexander Hug, right, watches as Ukrainian emergency workers load the bodies of passengers on to a truck to be transported from the site of the Malaysian plane crash at Hrabove village to a refrigerated train, at the station in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 9miles from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, on Monday. By Ibrahim Barzak The Associated Press GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip signaled Monday that the Islamic militant group will not agree to an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, while Israel's defense min- ister pledged to keep fight- ing "as long as necessary" — raising new doubt about the highest-level media- tion mission in two weeks. U.N. chief Ban Ki- moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ar- rived in Cairo on Monday to launch a new push to end the deadliest conflict between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers in just over five years. Meanwhile, cross-bor- der fighting continued unabated, with Israeli strikes leaving entire fam- ilies buried under rubble and Hamas militants fir- ing more than 50 rockets and trying to sneak into Israel through two tun- nels, the latest in a series of such attempts. For the second day in a row, the daily Palestin- ian death toll surpassed 100 on Monday, pushing the total number killed since the new round of fighting began on July 8 to at least 566, Pales- tinian officials said, add- ing that some 3,350 have been wounded. Seven Israeli soldiers also were killed Monday in clashes with Palestin- ian militants, the Israeli military said. That raised the overall Israeli death toll to 27, including two civilians. The Israeli mili- tary said four soldiers were killed in a firefight with Hamas fighters trying to sneak into Israel through a tunnel, and that the other three were killed in battles in Gaza. Mounting casualties on both sides have led inter- national officials to step up diplomatic efforts to end the worst bout of fight- ing between the two sides since 2009. On Monday, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his belief that Israel has the right to defend it- self against rockets being launched by Hamas into Israel. Yet he contended that Israel's military ac- tion in Gaza had already done "significant damage" to the Hamas terrorist in- frastructure and said he doesn't want to see more civilians getting killed. Ban and Kerry were in Egypt to try to salvage an Egyptian cease-fire pro- posal that had been ac- cepted by Israel last week but rejected by Hamas, which is demanding the lifting of a 7-year-old blockade of Gaza first. When asked about such conditions, Ban told re- porters Monday in Cairo that "the best way at this time is to stop the violence and return to dialogue and address the root causes of the problems." "I am asking again without any condition, they must stop," he said. "I know that this proposal by Egyptian government ... has been rejected because of certain conditions. If they really want to discuss all these conditions, they will take a very long time." 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