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 Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:15 pm Post subject: Knives planted on Palestinian 'knife attackers' by Zionists |
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Elor Azaria at a hearing in the Jaffa Military Court on Sunday, June 26, 2016.David Bachar
More evidence arises in trial of soldier who killed subdued assailant
After the shooting, a prominent resident of Hebron who was at the scene told Elor Azaria to take a good lawyer, a Military Police investigator says.
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Gili Cohen
26.06.2016 | 13:23 7 comments
A Military Police investigator testified on Sunday morning at the trial of Elor Azaria, the soldier accused of killing a prone Palestinian assailant in Hebron, saying that after the shooting a prominent resident of Hebron suggested to Azaria's father that he take a good lawyer.
According to the investigator, a phone call took place between Ofer Ohana, a paramedic who was at the scene of the shooting and a well-known figure in Hebron, and Charlie Azaria, the soldier's father. In a WhatsApp conversation between the two, the former suggested that they take a good lawyer.
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At the beginning of the month, the military prosecution presented more evidence from the March incident in Hebron, in which Ohana showcases the knife used by the assailant. Later the knife can be seen kicked in the direction of the assailant's body, according to the prosecutor by Ohana. Ohana testified in his investigation that he held a conference call with the soldier and his father. The investigator noted that a lab test didn’t manage to obtain the voice messages between Ohana and the soldier's father that were sent using the app.
The military prosecutor read out during Sunday's hearing from a testimony by a soldier from Azaria's company, who described in his investigation that Azaria "said something along the lines that 'my friend has been stabbed, and they tried to kill him, so he also deserves to die." He also answered in the affirmative when asked whether he himself had heard Azaria say the same thing to the company commander, Tom Na'aman.
Na'aman testified some two weeks ago in Azaria's trial, and said that following the shooting he saw "Elor, with his hands on the weapon, walking westward. I approached him and asked him 'why did you do that?' and he answered me 'that terrorist was alive, he needs to die.'" The commander added, "I was angry that he did it. In fact, shooting was carried out at the area under my command, without my permission and without updating me."
After the commander's testimony, during which he said there was no operational justification for Azaria's shooting, his mobile phone number was distributed in right-wing activists' WhatsApp groups and on social media and he received threats.
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Medic at Hebron Soldier's Manslaughter Trial Refuses to Answer Military Police Queries - Israel News
Gili Cohen
The army medic at the scene of the incident in Hebron, when Sgt. Elor Azaria allegedly shot a wounded Palestinian to death, refused to answer questions at Azaria's trial on Tuesday.
Ofer Ohana’s lawyer had asked the court to grant his client immunity from self-incrimination while giving testimony about the incident, on March 24, and military prosecutors did not object to the request.
During questioning by Military Police investigators, Ohana had refused to talk about a telephone call he had conducted with Azaria’s father the day after the incident.
The medic claimed that the investigators were trying to incriminate him; the investigators, for their part, said that when asked why he would not answer their questions, Ohana said simply that “he did not want to.”
Ohana was asked by the prosecutor why he refused to give details about the conversation with Azaria’s father, and he said he sent a WhatsApp message to investigators saying that he thought they were not trying to discover the truth, but just wanted to incriminate Azaria and himself.
Ohana refused to respond when asked about whether the terrorist’s knife was moved closer to the body after the shooting, as one of the video clips played in court last week seemed to show. Ohana said he had already been questioned by the police on the matter, as a possible suspect, “so I don’t know if I can answer that.”
The prosecutor told Ohana he had the right not to answer the question if he thought he would incriminate himself.
Later he said, however, that when he saw that as the ambulance drove away, it moved the knife, and he knew another ambulance would be dispatched to the crime scene, he "moved the knife nearer to the spot, in order for it not to roll another 10 meters, and then once again the Arabs would say that Israeli army soldiers murdered an innocent person without a knife.”
“I am being threatened today, and I don’t intend to die because people here leak material irresponsibly as if I were obstructing justice,” said Ohana. “It endangers my life. When I gave [investigators] the material I did so innocently in order that the truth would be found.”
The prosecutor asked why Ohana did not mention anything about a possible explosive device which certain persons present at the scene apparently thought the terrorist had on his body.
Ohana: “I am not in laboratory conditions. At the same time what I saw was the knife so I dwelled on it.”
The medic explained that he is not a bomb-disposal expert and that according to Israel Defense Forces rules and Magen David Adom emergency service regulations, every assailant involved in an terror incident is considered to continue to constitute a real danger – in the event that he has an explosive device or wants to continue the attack – until the explosives expert arrives.
Ohana said military prosecutors refused to allow him to read his testimony to the Military Police before appearing in court. He had asked to postpone Tuesday’s hearing, he added, because of the two recent terrorist attacks near Hebron. “I can’t sleep at night,” he said.
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