A perusal of the judgment in the Salem Turk case shows that on page 10 of the judgment it was determined, inter alia, that "the short distance (a few meters – A.H.) from which the shooting was carried out, and the large number of shots fired, combined with the fact that the appellant hit the deceased only once, are consistent with my view with a possible conclusion that the appellant's intention at the time of the act was to injure the deceased and not to kill him."
Thus, from the aforesaid paragraph (a significant paragraph in the judgment) it can be learned that in the judgment in the Turk case, the court based the defendant's acquittal of the offense of murder, inter alia, and mainly on the fact that the defendant fired the deceased a large number of shots and hit him only once, in complete contrast to the case that is the subject of our hearing, in which the defendant fired only three bullets according to the indictment. He hit the deceased with three bullets, one bullet in the cheek, one bullet in the neck and one bullet in the abdomen.
The presumption of intent instructs us that "it can be assumed that a person intended the consequences that relate naturally and with a high probability of his actions, this is a factual assumption based on life experience" (Criminal Appeal 125/50 Yakubowitz v. Family Appellant, IsrSC 6 (1) 514,545).
When Muhammad followed the deceased for a short period of time by car (until the deceased was shot), after he had previously carried out all the preliminary actions detailed in detail above, including obtaining a vehicle in the Occupied Territories, arriving at the murder scene in two vehicles, leaving his cell phone in Lod, attempting to organize an "alibi" and more, and later fired three bullets at the deceased from a distance of a few meters (2-3 meters), hitting him with the three bullets, When two of the bullets hit him in the head area (cheek and neck), it is presumed that he intended to cause the death of the deceased, and no less so, and this is different from the case discussed in the Salem Turk case. It is not superfluous to note that Muhammad's words to the informant, which were detailed at length above, regarding his desire for the death of the deceased, will strengthen the aforesaid conclusion.