The evidence phase in the trial of Wasim Aseid, the terrorist who’s sworn allegiance to ISIS and is accused of murdering the Kadori family's parents in 2019 as part of his stabbing spree in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem, continued Wednesday. Four witnesses are expected to arrive at court; Shari Hilleli, the daughter of the Kadori couple and Shimon her husband, Hadar Bezalel who was stabbed the night before the murder by Aseid, and also a friend of Ivan Tirnovsky, the foreign worker whom Aseid murdered as well. 

At the request of the family members to testify today, a curtain was placed between them and the terrorist, whose face they asked not to see. When the hearing began and the Kaduri couple’s son-in-law came up to testify, the terrorist was the one who asked him questions instead of his lawyer. According to the court, the lawyer who represents Aseid on behalf of the public defender's office asked to be released from representing the accused, after he asked him to "represent him with ISIS values", adding that it is a "commandment to kill Jews". 

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Despite the court officially rejecting the request, in the first stage of the discussion, as mentioned, Aseid was the one cross-examining the relatives of the Kadori couple. The daughter said at the beginning of her testimony: "The first time we entered my parents' house, me and my brothers, we saw that the house was in the form of a pogrom. Not something we grew up in."

At the end of the main investigation, Judge Arnon Darel asked Aseid's lawyer if he wanted to ask the witnesses questions, but he refused. When he turned to Aseid, he agreed to ask more questions, and then asked one of the witnesses and victim: "Do you recognize me?". The interrogated answered in the negative, then the terrorist asked: "It's strange, if I stabbed you in the neck, how come you didn't see me?". The witness replied: "I slept with my face against the wall, I woke up from the blow and the pain."

ISIS claims first Israel attack terror fanatic murders Jerusalem policewoman in brutal shooting and stabbing rampage https://t.co/RRkNQhVUcG

— Michael Arnett (@MCAVioletflamr) July 20, 2017

According to the charge brought against Aseid last year, in 2014, he swore allegiance to ISIS. On January 8, 2019, he entered the territory of Israel from the Palestinian Authority carrying two knives, with the aim of murdering Jews. According to what is described in the indictment, filed by lawyers Erez Padan and Yuval Kader from the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, he arrived in the Jerusalem Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and roamed the streets of the neighborhood with the intention of finding  Jewish victims and murdering them.