(See p. 27 of the transcript, line 21 to p. 28 of the transcript).
In addition, as part of his cross-examination, Huli was first questioned about his qualification as a youth investigator and confirmed that he had undergone appropriate courses and knew how to distinguish between interrogating juveniles and interrogating adults. According to him, the defendant's interrogations were conducted in a relaxed manner and he was given breaks at his request (p. 30, lines 3-10). The witness emphasized that there is nothing wrong with the fact that the defendant maintained his right to remain silent. When he noted that the defendant disregarded the interrogation, he was referring to situations such as; Raising his legs on the table and refusing to lower his legs as long as he was not allowed to smoke (p. 30, lines 23-27).
- Investigator Jihad Abu Salah also referred to the defendant's behavior during the interrogation, as follows:
"Q: No, why do you have to express yourself towards the boy in expressions like you are a merchant, you are a criminal, you are a child of a scumbag, you are acting like garbage, come and explain to me why?
A: Because there were cases in the investigations.
Q: Because he is silent.
A: Not because he's silent, there were cases in the interrogations that he was about cigarettes, now give me the cigarette, now I want my cigarette, I'm not that, there was one case where he was taken out somewhere to the office, to the bathroom or something like that and refused to come back, and held the door, as if it were the behavior of a criminal."
(p. 39 of the transcript, lines 5-13).
Similarly, interrogator Ben Lulu, in his testimony before us, did not skip over the defendant's negative attitude toward his interrogators:
"Okay so look as I mentioned in my testimony then (the defendant) behaved like a criminal for all intents and purposes, (the defendant) was rude, (the defendant) spoke badly to us, (the defendant) refused to enter the interrogation room while he was in the interrogation room, we should have used reasonable force against him to get him into the interrogation room. (The defendant) made the continuation of the interrogation conditional on us on the fact that we would give him cigarettes. I immediately instructed under the same condition that he set that there were no cigarettes, no cigarettes, that we had to set boundaries for this child. He was portrayed by attorney Zohar Arbel as a child, as a teenager whose true sins he did not know. We really got the complete opposite impression from (the accused). He was extremely manipulative. Any investigator, even the most calm investigator in our department, would come out and say to me, "The Lord of the Universe, which suspect is this?""