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ByMohammed Daraghmeh TheAssociatedPress CAIRO Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a tempo- rary cease-fire for five days, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Wednesday, potentially averting re- newed violence and permit- ting the sides to continue to negotiate a substantive deal to end the war in Gaza. Egyptian mediators had been racing to pin down a long-term cease-fire as a temporary truce was set to expire at midnight. The Is- raeli military said five rock- ets were launched at Israel in the hours leading up to the end of the cease-fire. Egypt's foreign minis- try and the head of the Pal- estinian negotiating team announced the extension. A spokesman for Israel's prime minister had no im- mediate comment. The cease-fire extension is meant to grant both sides additional time to negotiate a longer-term truce and a roadmap for the coastal territory. The lull in violence has also been a welcome re- prieve for Israelis and Pales- tinians living in Gaza. Dur- ing the temporary cease- fire, Israel halted military operations in the war-bat- tered coastal territory and Gaza militants stopped fir- ing rockets, aside from the ones late Wednesday. "We have agreed on a cease-fire for five days," said Azzam al-Ahmad, the head of the Palestinian del- egation to the Cairo talks. He noted that there had been "significant progress" but that disagreements re- mained over the word- ing regarding security ar- rangements, reconstruc- tion efforts for the Gaza Strip and the permissible fishing area. The two sides were con- sidering an Egyptian pro- posal that partially ad- dresses their demands, but deep differences have kept the deal in doubt. Hamas is seeking an end to a crippling blockade im- posed by Israel and Egypt in 2007. The blockade has greatly limited the move- ment of Palestinians in and out of the territory of 1.8 million people. It has also restricted the flow of goods into Gaza and blocked vir- tually all exports. Israel says the closure is necessary to prevent arms smuggling, and officials are reluctant to make any con- cessions that would allow Hamas to declare victory. Israel wants Hamas to disarm, or at least be pre- vented from re-arming. Hamas has recovered from previous rounds of violence with Israel, including a ma- jor three-week ground oper- ation in January 2009 and another weeklong air offen- sive in 2012. It now controls an arsenal of thousands of rockets, some with long ranges and powerful. Gaza militants fired more than 3,000 rockets toward Israel during the war. Neither side is likely to see all of its demands met, but the Egyptian proposal tabled Tuesday offered some solutions. A member of the Palestinian delega- tion at the Cairo talks said the proposal calls for easing parts of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, bringing some re- lief to the territory. MIDEAST CONFLICT Is ra el , Ha ma s ag re e to e xt en d ce as e- fir e LEFTERISPITARAKIS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Smoke from fires caused by Israeli strikes rises over Gaza City. News feed Brazilian presiden- tial candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday when the small plane that was carrying him and several campaign officials plunged into a residential neighbor- hood in the port city of Santos. All seven people aboard the plane, including a campaign photographer and cameraman, a press adviser and two pilots, died in the crash, Santos City Hall press officer Pa- tricia Fagueiro told The Associated Press. In a solemn address, President Dilma Rousseff declared three days of of- ficial mourning in honor of Campos and said she would suspend her cam- paign during that time. GENEVA Elevenhurta er land slide his train Three train cars de- railed and 11 people were injured Wednes- day after a landslide hit a mountain train in the Swiss Alps, police said. One carriage slid down a steep slope, saved from a ravine only by large trees. The accident occurred in a deep wooded val- ley between Tiefencas- tel and Solis, southeast of Zurich in the canton (state) of Graubuenden. Police said about 140 people were on board at the time of the accident, about lunchtime. The landslide followed heavy rains over the last day. MANILA, PHILIPPINES Trains rams barrier, injuring scores Philippine commuter train rammed through a concrete barrier at the end of the rail line and rolled into a busy inter- section on Wednesday, injuring scores of pas- sengers and damaging vehicles, officials said. Rescuers removed dozens of injured peo- ple from the train's front car after the accident in Pasay city in metro- politan Manila. Many suffered fractures and bruises, hospital offi- cials said, but there were no reports of any deaths from the accident, which caused a traffic jam. SANTOS BRAZIL Presidential hopeful dies in plane crash THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A prisoner tramples smoldering grass in a high-security facility a er shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. By Sergei Grits The Associated Press DONETSK, UKRAINE A rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine came under in- tensified shelling Wednes- day as the U.N. revealed that the death toll from the fighting between govern- ment troops and separat- ists has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. A spokeswoman for the U.N.'s human rights office, Cecile Pouilly, said the or- ganization's "very conser- vative estimates" show the overall death toll has risen to at least 2,086 people as of Aug. 10, up from 1,129 on July 26. Pouilly said at least 4,953 others have been wounded in the fighting since mid- April. While the humanitar- ian crisis reaches critical stage in at least one ma- jor Ukrainian city, trucks apparently carrying some 2,000 tons of aid have lain idle at a military depot in Russia. Moscow insists it coordinated the dispatch of the goods, which range from baby food and canned meat to portable generators and sleeping bags, with the international Red Cross, but Ukraine says it's wor- ried the mission may be a cover for an invasion. A spokesman for local au- thorities in the main rebel- controlled city of Donetsk told The Associated Press on Wednesday that rocket attacks over the previous night had increased in in- tensity. Several high-rise apart- ment blocks in a south- western district in the city showed the effect of artil- lery strikes. In one, the fa- cade of one of the top floors was blown away to reveal a shattered interior. Others bore smashed windows and gaping holes. Associated Press report- ers saw two bodies lying in a street Wednesday morn- ing in Donetsk's southwest- ern Petrovsky district. The local government said three were killed, a figure that adds to the sharply mount- ing death toll. Shelling in Donetsk has damaged power plants and gas pipelines, leaving large parts of the city with- out electricity or gas, city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky said. Damage to residen- tial buildings is an appar- ent result of two combined factors: The army has re- frained from going into Do- netsk, favoring an artillery campaign of attrition over close urban combat. And local residents have regu- larly revealed that damaged houses are often to be found near rebel firing positions, suggesting that the rocket attacks are responses to outgoing strikes. Government troops and the volunteers fighting with them are also sustain- ing heavy losses while mak- ing regular territorial ad- vances. At least 12 militiamen fighting alongside the army were killed overnight Tues- day in an ambush outside Donetsk, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said Wednesday. The situation in Lu- hansk, also in rebel hands, is yet more serious. City au- thorities said Wednesday they had entered the 11th straight day without power supplies. Running water has dried up and the few working shops are selling only basic essentials. Rocket attacks remain a daily occurrence. Death toll spikes as attacks intensify Nearly 1,000 killed in past 2 weeks UKRAINE By Diaa Hadid The Associated Press MAKHMOUR, IRAQ The Kurdish commander stared down a road shim- mering in the heat, then gestured to where the Is- lamic militants were de- ployed, plotting their next advance on this dusty Iraqi frontier town. There was very little his Kurdish fighters could do about it. "They have better weap- ons," Lt. Col. Saadi Soru- chi said of the insurgents. "American weapons." TheKurdish forcestrying to defend frontline towns like Makhmour in their au- tonomous region of north- ern Iraq have felt the brunt of the Islamic extremist fighters' attacks and know how ferocious they are. The militants are bristling with American weapons and ar- mored Humvees looted from Iraqi arsenals, giving them a powerful edge. After Washington's promises to arm them, the Kurds say they badly need heavier weapons from the United States to stem the expansion of the Islamic State group. The Kurdish fighters, also known as peshmerga, say they have yet to re- ceive any new weaponry, even though U.S. officials said this week that they have been quietly arming the Kurds since June, when the Islamic State militants first swept into Iraq. "I saw it on the breaking news," Soruchi said of the U.S. announcement, as he strode past Kurdish troops lounging in the shade at a sweltering, sand-whipped checkpoint. Surprised by their commander's visit, the men quickly snapped to at- tention. Earlier this week, Lt. Gen. William Mayville told reporters at the Penta- gon that the U.S. was plan- ning to provide the Kurds with heavy weapons that are effective against the Islamic State's "technical vehicles" and longer-range guns. Weapons of that sort would include mortars and rocket-propelled grenades The peshmerga say the lack of weaponry is becom- ing more urgent as the mil- itants advance using armor the Kurds aren't equipped to fight. In particular, the insur- gents have seized Ameri- can Humvees — vehicles that are so toughly ar- mored that Kurdish fight- ers say they are struggling to penetrate them at any- thing but very close dis- tance. The perilous task is made more dangerous be- cause militants rig them- selves, and the vehicles, with explosives. Although the U.S. has been conducting airstrikes to defend some Kurd- ish positions, including Makhmour, the peshmerga say they want to protect their own frontiers from the Islamic State fighters. The al-Qaida breakaway group has seized broad swathes of territory strad- dling the Iraqi-Syria bor- der as it expands the Is- lamic state, or Caliphate, it has established there, im- posing its harsh interpre- tation of Islamic law on the region's inhabitants. IRAQ Ku rd is h fo rc es s ay t he y need more weapons By Sarah Dilorenzo The Associated Press DAKAR, SENEGAL Doc- tors treating a Sierra Le- one physician with Ebola defended their decision not to give him an experimen- tal drug, saying Wednes- day they feared it was too risky. Calling it "an impossible dilemma," Doctors Without Borders explained in detail their decision in response to a New York Times story on the case. It would have been the first time the ex- perimental drug was tried in humans. The explanation came the same day that another top doctor from Sierra Le- one died of the disease, fur- ther fueling a debate about how to apportion a limited supply of untested drugs and vaccines and whether they are even effective. Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in the current West African outbreak that has also hit Guinea, Liberia and Nige- ria. Many of the dead are health workers, who are often working with inad- equate supplies and pro- tection. At the time the experi- mental treatment was be- ing considered for Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, his immune system was al- ready starting to produce antibodies suggesting he might recover, Doctors Without Borders said in the statement. Khan was also due to be transferred to a European hospital that would be more capable of handling problems that might arise, it said. The experimental drug, ZMapp, is designed to boost the immune system to help it fight the virus. Since Khan's body was al- ready producing an im- mune response, the doc- tors may have feared that any boost would kick it into overdrive. In the end, the treating physicians decided against using the drug. They never told Khan of its existence because they felt it would be unethical to tell him of a treatment they might not use. Shortly after their decision, however, Khan's condition worsened, the statement said, and the company providing the medical evacuation de- cided not to transfer him. He died a few days later, on July 29. DEADLY OUTBREAK Do ct or s sa y Eb ol a dr ug poses 'impossible dilemma' Tony'sHaircutting Tues.-Fri.10-6pmSat10-2pm AllHaircuts $ 9 .00 Specializing in Flattops, Fades & Conventional Styles 725PineSt. BytheDMV 736-7652 WhereQualityMatters STOVEJUNCTION The TheNorthState'spremiersupplierofstoves 22825 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff 530-528-2221 • Fax 530-528-2229 www.thestovejunction.com Over 25 years of experience Tues-Sat9am-5pm• ClosedSun&Mon Now Carrying! 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