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Serious Crimes Case (Be’er Sheva) 33815-10-23 State of Israel v. Ahmad Abu al-Qi’an - part 23

September 6, 2026
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After the ramming, a guy named "Adam" came from the direction of the industrial zone with a Hyundai Sonata.  He reversed, took the deceased and left the neighborhood: "I had Muhammad's body with me...  I took him and told Adam to go back..." As for the question of whether he saw more vehicles, he answered: " I didn't notice anything" (p.  197).

When asked why he did not tell the interrogator that there were children at the scene, he replied that he was a 12-year-old boy and did not know that a child of that age was giving testimony (p.  200).  There were two other people who were traveling with Adam in the car.  He thinks one of them is Muhammad's cousin and he doesn't know who the other is.  He didn't hear one of the children say that the defendant ran over the deceased, nor did he have the opportunity to talk to them because he was with the deceased.

Jaudat was asked whether his phone was with him during the interrogation and he answered in the affirmative.  In light of this answer, he was confronted with the fact that during the police interrogation he said that he had broken the phone on the day of the incident because he was so nervous.  In response to this, he said that he did not remember, and that he may have said that he had broken the phone: "I think I broke the phone, I don't remember.  It's a new phone, even this phone...  It seems to me, yes, yes, that the phone was broken." Later in this answer, he was asked how he knew the time he had called MDA and answered that they had checked with MDA.  When asked for clarification whether they had called to check, he answered in the negative, adding that "there are things I can not tell you about it" (p.  206).

The witness was asked to explain his answer that Karem was next to the defendant at the time of the accident but that he was not 100% sure, and stated that there was blackening in the front of the passenger, and that his eyes were focused on the defendant.  The witness added that "what interests me, it is not Karam who is the driver" (p.  211).  The witness reiterated that the defendant did not brake at any stage: he did not even put the brakes" (p.  212); ...  When he got on it he didn't put the brakes or anything, he didn't brake or anything, he drove" (p.  232), he repeated that the car got on the deceased and ruled out the possibility that he was describing things he had heard from others and did not see himself (pp.  213-214).  Moving to the accident he saw the deceased "...  going up, towards his grandfather's house on the right and he came from the opposite" (p.  219).

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