The three other defense witnesses testified on December 4, 2024, at a video conference from Georgia, where they were in fear for their lives, as described in a chapter dealing with the issue of motives and conflict between the rival families. First, Shaker, the defendant's father, testified as a key witness who was supposed to corroborate the defendant's version both regarding the meeting with Samer on the evening before the murder and in relation to the alibi's claim on the day of the murder itself. In practice, his testimony did not provide the goods. When asked in the main interrogation who was in the house on Thursday evening, he replied that he had seen the defendant and 'Udai, and that he did not remember seeing anyone else [transcript of December 4, 2024, at p. 179]. In cross-examination, he repeated the same description, and when asked explicitly about Samer, he replied that he did not remember whether he had come to the compound or not. Shakar also did not remember when he returned from work that day, and as a result, at what time he met the defendant and Udai, nor how Udai arrived at the compound and whether he stayed to sleep [ibid., at pp. 184-186].
As for the events of Friday, the day of the murder, Shaker stated in the main testimony that at around 11 or 11:30, he took the Mazda and went out to pray at the mosque in Jawarish, until around 2:00 and 2:30 P.M. In response to a guiding question, he replied that he had seen the defendant and Udai in the compound before he went out to pray, but that he did not see them again after he returned [ibid., at pp. 178-179]. When asked by the accuser's counsel about the alleged trip to Hummus, he replied that he did not travel with the defendant to Hummus and did not remember whether the defendant was at home or in Hummus [ibid., at p. 188]. When asked about the defendant's phones, he did not know how many phones he had. According to him, he used to use the same phones sometimes, but he did not know their code and did not even remember whether he knew the code in real time [ibid., at pp. 182-183]. Finally, the claim that he had been summoned for questioning in the case, but did not appear, was challenged, and he confirmed this and claimed that he had no trust in the police and the State Attorney's Office following the murder of several members of his family [ibid., at pp. 193-194].