With all due respect and appreciation for the professional position of Inspector Hammer, who testified that he would have expected to find the DNA of everyone sitting in the car, as he himself replied, he has no professional information regarding the probability of locating the findings, or regarding their quality and the possibility that they will lead to the discovery and identification of a comparable genetic profile - and the present case will prove it. In practice, out of 11 samples collected, only eight genetic profiles were extracted, and most of them contained partial and disaggregated mixtures of a number of individuals, which did not allow interpretation. In the end, only two of the samples, those linked to the driver of the vehicle (the cab and the gear levers and the brakes), produced a comparable profile, and in both cases a match was found to be a match for Abed al-Hadi, who today is no longer disputed that he was the one who drove the last Mitsubishi, on August 29, 2022, from the parking lot to the place where it was loaded onto the trailer. This is, therefore, a natural and necessary finding, which does not raise any difficulty or perplexity, and which does not justify any conclusion in favor of the accused.
I am aware that the biological opinion left room for the possibility that the DNA in the sample from the cab was in Summer, and not in Abd al-Hadi, his brother, but it seems that this is a very unlikely possibility, both in view of the findings of the opinion itself, in view of the additional finding on the gear lever and brakes, which is only linked to Abed, and in view of the fact that Abed now confirms that he was the last driver of the Mitsubishi. Moreover, even if we assume that the aforementioned finding originated in Samer, and not in a slave, this does not help the defendant. As you may recall, there is no dispute that the three occupants of the Toyota were picked up by the Mitsubishi at the meeting point, after the Toyota was set on fire, so that on the day of the murder at least 4 different people were in the Mitsubishi at some point, and it is impossible to know which of them was driving the car at that stage. In addition, there is no dispute that another person, who is not the defendant, drove a Mitsubishi from Lod to Jaffa, and later in the day to a parking lot in Tel Aviv, where the car was parked for 3 days until it was taken tow by the defendant, Udai and Abed. Therefore, the possibility that Samer drove a Mitsubishi at any point on the day of the murder does not in any way affect the determination that the defendant was in the Mitsubishi at the relevant hours, and made use of the 685 subscription, and the absence of additional positive findings does not undermine the robustness of this determination.