 He denied the charge of manslaughter lodged against him during a hearing on May 23, pleading not guilty.The body of Abdel al-Fattah al-Sharif was returned to his family for his funeral which was held on May 28, however Azaria's defence team demanded on 29 May for the body to be returned saying it hampered the legal proceedings in the case.IDF's lead investigator testified in court on 1 June that an ambulance driver Ofer Ohana who took many videos of the incident, had moved a knife thought to have been used in the earlier stabbing closer to al-Sharif and tampered with evidence to make it look like Azaria killed him in self-defence.