Khair al-Din Rouf Hamdan — fauxtography?

There's an interesting video going around as the backing to several news stories.   The video shows a young man running up to a police car, hitting it several times with what looks like a knife, the cops getting out, the young man backing off, the cops shooting him and dragging him into the car. Take a look:



I've watched it quite a few times and I see a lot of things wrong with the video that our esteemed media simply did not catch.

First, here's a mediocre summary by the New York Times:

The Israeli authorities said the Arab man, Kheir al-Din Hamdan, 22, of Kafr Kanna in Galilee, was shot early Saturday after he attacked a police vehicle while wielding a knife. Grainy video footage said to be from the scene showed Mr. Hamdan banging on the closed windows of a police van with an object that looked like a knife, but it also appeared to show him retreating from the vehicle when the officers got out and shot him. The officers were then seen dragging Mr. Hamdan’s limp body toward the van.

My first impressions were that the cops did their job, but not brilliantly.  If the man was leaving, he had to be detained lest somebody else be stabbed.
My opinion has changed to puzzlement.

My problems with the video are as follows:

1. The shot man, Mr. Hamdan, was moving after he was shot and was not "limp".
2. There was no blood from his wounds.  A man shot to death will leak all sorts of disgusting body fluids including blood and feces.
3. The officers dragged his "body" to the back seat of the van, where officers had been sitting, and stuffed him in.  Presumably so he could leak fluids onto the seats and carpets.  
4. The officers were in close contact with the "bleeding" man.  Presumably getting blood all over their uniforms.
5. My resulting suspicion is that the man who was shot in the video was not hit with a fatal bullet, but possibly a stun gun or a "rubber bullet" that does not penetrate.  Otherwise, where is the blood?  And is that really how cops handle bleeders?
6. It seems really odd that the cops didn't call an ambulance first.
7. After the shooting, other officers get out of the van and point their guns out of the scene, away from Mr. Hamdan.  We cannot see what they are worried about.
8. The video appears to be in black-and-white with color imperfections.
9. At time 1:02 you can see that this is a video taken with a hand-held camera of a computer video screen.  This becomes even clearer a few seconds later, at 1:45.
10. We have no way of guessing what editing tricks were made on the computer before the release of the video-of-a-video.
11. If the guy was only hit with a rubber bullet or such like, why did he die?  Was he murdered later?
12. There isn't enough detail to verify the video is actually of the man who later died.
13. I don't understand the Arab-language background chatter of the men watching the video on the computer screen.

The Jerusalem Post has an intelligent, balanced view, worth reading.

None of the so-called "Media" companies has picked up yet on the flaws and inconsistencies clearly evident in the video.  Or should I say, the video-of-a-video.

There have been other instances in the past of Palestinian activists publicizing "raw video" that later turns out to have been heavily edited.  This includes a famous case when an Arab girl pulled a cassette out of her camera and handed it to the police, seemingly indicating a raw, unedited video, that later analysis showed to be heavily edited.  The case was thrown out of court.

The Israeli Justice Ministry is looking into the matter, though.  As the Jerusalem Post says:

The Justice Ministry confirmed that its Police Investigation Department has questioned those involved in Friday’s incident and is performing lab work and examining video footage of the shooting of Kheir a-Din Hamdan, 22.

Investigators have reviewed the scene of the shooting and have been instructed by Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to gather evidence as quickly as possible, the ministry said.

If the video is anything like reality, we must consider the possibility that the police killed Hamdan while he was in custody.  But the video is, as I've shown, very questionable.

This report from Israel National News says the first time the van door opened, the cops performed their required warning shot.  And it says that the cops later transferred the guy to an ambulance that carried him to a hospital, where he died.   I agree that could make more sense.

Still, the investigators need to get their hands on the original, unedited, video.