Moreover, in the cross-examination of the deceased's father , Mr. Al-Said, when he had finished recounting the dispute between his deceased son and Muhammad, Attorney Ben Natan, representing defendants 2 and 3, asked the deceased's father whether he knew any of the residents of the courtroom when he pointed to the defendants, and in his answer the father replied, "I don't know anyone," indicating that he did not know any of the defendants. The father of the deceased was asked if he knew the names "Munir al-Issawi" or "Younis al-Issawi" and he replied in the negative (P. 29 October 2020, pp. 87-88), all the details presented above indicate that in the case of defendants 2 and 3, no apparent motive was presented to harm the deceased.
Counsel for defendants 2 and 3 referred several times to another claim made by defendant 2 himself in his testimony, according to which he or his family did not seek revenge for the blood of his murdered brother, and hence it is illogical for him to enlist in the murder of a man he did not know: "I murdered my brother, we did not take revenge, I will go and take revenge on Muhammad, something that is not ours? It's not about my family." (December 26, 2022, p. 364, Q11-12).
In the circumstances of the case, this argument should not be given real weight, since we do not have information as to whether the family of Defendant 2 even has information regarding the identity of the brother's murderer, we do not know what the background to the murder is, in addition to the fact that a relatively short time has passed since the murder of the brother until the testimony of Defendant 2 (about three years), and we do not know at all whether the family has indeed refrained from avenging the murder since its occurrence until today.
From the aforesaid rule, it appears that among the evidence presented there was not a single concrete evidence that could point to a motive that defendants 2 and 3 had in assisting Muhammad in the murder of the deceased.
Defendants' Versions 2, 3