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Another person was identified as a shooter: A resident of East Jerusalem who was convicted of murder demands a retrial - Walla! news

2020-11-30T19:50:36.671Z


Jamil Srur was convicted of shooting a man to death as part of a conflict with the Abu Assab family in the Shuafat refugee camp in 2011. His request for a retrial alleges that he was convicted only because of testimonies from the Abu Assab family. A request was also attached to the application, alleging that the police erred in its translation, in which the family takes responsibility for the shooting


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Another person identified as a shooter: A resident of East Jerusalem who was convicted of murder is demanding a retrial

Jamil Srur was convicted of shooting a man to death as part of a conflict with the Abu Assab family in the Shuafat refugee camp in 2011. His request for a retrial alleges that he was convicted only because of testimonies from the Abu Assab family.

A request was also attached to the application, alleging that the police erred in its translation, in which the family takes responsibility for the shooting

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Daniel Dolev

Monday, 30 November 2020, 16:38

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East Jerusalem resident Jamil Srur was convicted of murder during a conflict between families that occurred in 2011 in the Shuafat refugee camp and was sentenced to life in prison.

Srur, who is serving his sentence, claims that he was convicted in vain and in a retrial he filed yesterday (Sunday) through the Public Defender's Office and the innocence clinic at the Hebrew University, it was alleged that he could not be identified as eyewitnesses claimed, and that the police erred About the event.



The murder took place in December 2009, during a conflict between Srur's family and the Abu Assab family.

The violent clashes between the two families lasted for three days, culminating on the night of December 2nd to 3rd.

According to the Jerusalem District Court, Srur and another person, whose identities are unknown, fired at an alley to injure members of the Abu Assab family, but hit a passerby named Anwar Jit, who was hit in the abdomen and died of his wounds.

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The police erred in translating the documents.

Jamil Srur

"Three days after the incident, an agreement was signed between the family of the deceased and the Abu 'Asav family," the request read.

"It was the first of three agreements, in which the Abu 'Assav family took responsibility for the shooting and even a female named Yura - Muhammad Fouad Abu' Assav.



Despite these agreements, the person charged with the fatal shooting was actually Srur, and the main evidence against him was four eyewitnesses from the Abu Assab family, who testified that they saw him shoot.

They stood at a distance of 50-20 meters from him, and although the lighting conditions at the place were minimal, some testified that they were able to identify him by the spark from the gunfire that illuminated his face.

The police were aware of the agreements, but believed that they were intended solely to calm the spirits, and were not authentic.

Another witness, who is not from the Abu Saab family, claimed to have seen a man shoot but was unable to identify him.



The retrial alleges that the four incriminating witnesses from the Abu Assab family were not questioned as suspects in the shooting and were not arrested, except for one interrogation with the warning of one of them - Muhammad Fouad, whose name was even mentioned in agreements with the Jit family as the shooter.

The same witnesses were not questioned although some were seen near the incident armed and threatening to hit Srur, they even admitted throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and damaging his family property.

The possibility that they coordinated testimonies was also not examined, although the four had a clear interest in distancing themselves from the incident.

The 4 incriminating witnesses were not questioned as suspects in the shooting.

Shuafat Refugee Camp (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Please contend that significant flaws were found in the investigation.

"No further evidence has been found to support Srur's guilt," the request for a retrial read.

"Additional witnesses to the incident did not see the applicant at the time of the shooting, although some stood near the incriminating witnesses. No forensic evidence was found as well as the weapon the applicant allegedly used. In addition, no requested investigative actions were taken such as fingerprinting or security footage."



Attached to the request was an opinion from Prof. Hillel Cohen, an expert on Palestinian society and head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University.

Cohen examined the reconciliation agreements signed between the Abu Assav family and Jit's family, and determined that these were authentic and valid agreements, in which the Abu Assav family took full responsibility for the deceased's death and admitted to the accidental shooting.

In addition, affidavits were filed by three people who were the editors of the reconciliation agreements, and by Jit's brother, who support the conclusion that the agreements were authentic.



In addition, an affidavit was filed by a man named Amer Giuliani, who was standing next to Jit at the time of the shooting, but was not called to testify.

Giuliani claims to have been able to identify Muhammad Fouad and another person from the Abu Assab family shortly before the shooting, "while armed, threatening those present and signaling to each other to shoot. Immediately afterwards he heard the deadly shooting."

Finally, the opinions of two weapons experts and eyewitnesses were submitted, which indicate that the shooter could not be identified by the light generated by the gunshot wound.

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"This is a person who had no evidence for his conviction other than four problematic identifying testimonies that cannot be relied on, as well as additional testimony that is not identifying testimony at all," wrote the attorneys Deuel Lusky and Noa Mishor.

"His conviction was based on this evidence, ignoring the true meaning of the reconciliation process in which another family, to which all four incriminating witnesses belong, took full responsibility for the deceased's death and even named the shooter, one of those four witnesses."

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