The Military Police Investigations Unit is currently interrogating the paramedic of the Jordan Valley Brigade over his role in the death of an Arab rioter in Jericho, Channel 10’s military correspondent Or Heller reported Monday afternoon.
Yassin Omar al-Saradih, 33, last Thursday, Feb. 22, died as a result of gunfire, according to an autopsy conducted Friday afternoon at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, near Tel Aviv. The autopsy also showed relatively minor signs of a beating on Sardih’s body, which did not cause his death.
In the video of the incident that has gone viral since, al-Saradih is seen charging a soldier, who appears to shoot him just before the Arab attacker collapses to the ground.
But in his military police interrogation the paramedic insisted: “You could not see the bullet wound in the Palestinian’s body. I performed CPR for twenty minutes. He was brought to me lifeless and he was not bleeding. I reported this to the medical officer who also examined him and did not see any mark of a shooting.”
The military investigation also revealed that the squad commander fired one bullet during the procedure for apprehending a suspect which was used against al-Saradih while he was approaching the IDF squad holding a chair in his hands.
Even after the force stripped the terrorist to check whether he was carrying weapons, they did not identify, according to their testimonies, any bleeding or an entry wound from a shot.
Later on, according to the IDF, a knife was found on the body.