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8 maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 OctObEr 2015 News Death toll rises as violence escalates in occupied lands and East Jerusalem AttAcks by Palestinians in Jerusalem have killed at least three Israelis and wounded several others. On tuesday, two people were killed and 16 injured in a stabbing attack on a Jerusalem bus as an escalat- ing spate of violence grips Is- rael and Palestine. Another Israeli was killed in a separate attack in the city. According to witnesses, a Pal- estinian man began stabbing passengers on the No 78 bus as it passed through Jerusalem on tuesday morning. the un- armed driver managed to es- cape and alert another driver, who called the police. Officers then shot and killed the attack- er, though they said there was a second man involved. Man shot dead after stabbing passengers on bus, as both sides brace for day of major protests Read more A 60-year-old man was pro- nounced dead at the scene by paramedics. A 45-year-old man critically wounded was later pronounced dead at sha'are tzedek hospital, Israel medical authorities said. After the incident, the body of the attacker lay on the ground under a white tarpaulin as am- bulances ferried the wounded away. the bus stabbing came as reports emerged of a second attack in the city involving a car. A Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop in the city centre, then got out and began stabbing pedestrians, killing at least one and wounding several, police said. the attacker was "neutralised ", officers added, without giving details. Jerusalem is swamped with police and other security forces amid planned Palestinian pro- tests and a general strike called both for Israeli Arabs and Pal- estinians. According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, two attackers were involved in the assault on the bus, one with a knife and the other with a gun. Rosenfeld could not con- firm whether shots were fired. Rosenfeld told journalists at the scene: "Here in Armon HaNetziv, a quiet neighbour- hood of Jerusalem, two terror- ists attacked a bus with a knife and a pistol … While we were dealing with this, another at- tack took place in a religious neighbourhood of Jerusalem in which three people were injured, as well as an attack in Ra'anana." since the Jewish New Year last month, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings. At least 27 Pales- tinians been killed by Israeli fire, including 11 identified by Israel as attackers, and the rest in clashes between stone- throwers and Israeli troops. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded in confronta- tions. Stabbings and shooting in Jerusalem left three Israelis and one Palestinian attacker dead MH17 shot down by Russian-made missile sHRAPNel from a Russian-made missile was found in the bodies aboard flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine last year. the Dutch safety Board, headed by chairman tjibbe Joustra, yester- day presented its findings to vic- tims' relatives Gilze-Rijen military base in the Netherlands, following a 15-month investigation into how 298 people were killed when Ma- laysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down. the flight has left Am- sterdam and was headed towards kuala lampur. the DsB has made it clear that it would not deal with 'blame and culpability' - that is for the Dutch prosecutor's office to determine. those killed in the crash includ- ed 283 passengers - of which 80 were children - and 15 crew mem- bers. the country mourning the biggest number of victims is the Netherlands, followed by Malaysia and Australia. Preliminary findings presented in september 2014 said the plane was hit by "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft", fuelling speculation that a surface-to-air missile was responsible. Investigators today told family members that MH17 was hit by a BUk missile and that victims are unlikely to have suffered. the cockpit was struck first, causing that section to break away from the main body of the aircraft and killing crew members inside. At this stage, it is postulated that pas- sengers were all unconscious. the missle hit the front of the plane from the left and was launched from somewhere in an area of 320 sq km in eastern Ukraine, Joustra said. Relatives were given copies of the report and later journalists will be allowed into a hangar where part of MH17 has been reconstructed. Meanwhile, Almaz-Antey, the Russian manufacturer of BUk missiles, held a concurrent event contesting the Dutch findings with results from experiments it carried out itself. Almaz-Antey spent 10 million rubles (Us$160,000) on the experiments during its inves- tigation into the MH17 crash, the company's ceO Yan Novikov said. Almaz-Antey said it had con- ducted an experiment on 7 Oc- tober with Russian-made BUk missiles. the company says that if it was a BUk missle that hit the plane, it must have been a 9M38 missile and that only Ukraine has these. crash site footage shows the plane broke up over a wide area, scattering the bodies of passen- gers, two-thirds of whom were Dutch, but also Malaysians, Aus- tralians, Indonesians, Britons and others. Intercepted calls have bolstered claims that pro-Russian rebels were to blame. Bellingcat, an in- vestigative website, and others have produced photos and other evidence indicating that a mobile Buk system crossed the Russian border and may have shot down MH17. the report only aims to "draw lessons to prevent similar acci- dents in the future." Attributing blame is the job of the Joint Investigation team (JIt) - a Dutch-led unit that also includes Ukraine, Belgium, Malaysia and Australia. Wim de Bruin, spokes- man for the Dutch prosecutors, said his probe will "go further". Despite two probes, it is unclear whether anybody will end up in the dock. In July, Russia used its UN security council veto to block a draft resolution to set up an in- ternational tribunal for the disas- ter. Russia denies claims that it sup- plied arms to the rebels and has instead suggested a Ukrainian military aircraft flew within firing range of the airliner just before it came down. Playboy to stop publishing images of naked women PlAYBOY magazine is to stop pub- lishing images of naked women as part of its redesign, international media claim. According to the New York times, the magazine's Us owners say the internet has made nudity out-dated, and pornographic mag- azines are no longer such a com- mercially viable option. the radical move by the maga- zine which became an institution at the heart of the American sexual revolution in the early 1950s has been triggered by the easy access to online pornography. Playboy's circulation has dropped from 5.6 million in the 1970s to the current 800,000, but the magazine will still feature women in provoc- ative poses. the decision was taken last month at a meeting attended by Playboy founder and current editor- in-chief, 89-year-old Hugh Hefner, and magazine executives admitted that the magazine had been over- taken by the changes it pioneered. Playboy's website has already done away with nudity, partly to give it access to social media platforms like Facebook and twitter, and its popularity has soared with web traffic quadrupling. One of Playboy's main competi- tors in the 1970s and 1980s, Pent- house, decided to go the other way and become ever more explicit but the tactic failed and it was declared bankrupt in 2013. While Playboy will continue to feature photo spreads of women in provocative poses, as of March 2016 there will be no nudity what- soever - the magazine will truly rely on the strength of its writing - and in this regard it has a rich his- tory. the magazine, which is pub- lished in 35 countries and dozens of languages, has featured short stories from saul Bellow, P. G. Wodehouse, John Updike, Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood. Ray Bradbury's classic novel Farenheit 451 was first published in serialised form in the March, April, and May 1954 issues. It is renowned for its interviews, with Martin luther king and Mal- colm X among a sparkling list of greats from the arts, showbusiness, politics and sport from the second half of the 20th century. The first issue of Playboy magazine – published in December 1953 - featured Marilyn Monroe The Dutch safety team's final report concluded that a Russian-made missile downed the Malaysian airliner