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Madhat Yusuf from Beit Jann, on guard at the tomb, came under fire from Palestinian gunmen.62:{"position":5,"content":"$63"} 64:{"position":6,"content":"For six excruciating hours, Yusuf – who, ironically, bore the name of the site – lay bleeding on the ground. The IDF knew where he was and knew he was dying. It could have called in helicopter gunships, platoons of troops, tanks and artillery to rescue him. And yet – according to Likud MK Ayoub Kara, whose request to establish a state commission of inquiry to investigate the affair was rejected – Yusuf was left to bleed to death while then-prime minister Ehud Barak “negotiated” his rescue with the chief of the “Palestinian Preventive Security” forces, Jibril Rajoub. IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz refused to give the order to save Yusuf, presumably so as not to cause casualties on the Palestinian side. In the aftermath of the soldier’s death, successive prime minister Ariel Sharon declared: “The terrible incident with Cpl. Yusuf was – to the best of my knowledge – improper, egregious and unreasonable, and in complete contradiction to the IDF’s policy of not abandoning the wounded or dead in the field.”"} 65:{"position":7,"content":"Why was Yusuf left to die?"} 66:{"position":8,"content":"Was it because he was a Druse soldier, rather than a Jewish one? Or was it perhaps because he lacked a massive publicity campaign behind him, one that would have exerted intense pressure on the men

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