Ali al-Samoudi was shot at the same time as Shireen Abu Akleh. He made a selfie video of his drive to the hospital and his initial treatment there.
He told interviewers he was shot in the lower back, but the only wound I see doctors actively working on appears to be a graze on his left shoulder. (The selfie video is mirrored.)
The wound caused serious bleeding to both the front and back of his shirt. I couldn't find obvious damage to the flak jacket in the brief period before it was removed, outside of one errant thread.
If he was shot from the IDF position, roughly level but slightly elevated, could the bullet have grazed him in a way that at least part of the wound is visible on the front half of his body?
It seems to me that the bullet grazed him from an angle that was higher than ground level to leave a wound there.
I could easily be wrong here - maybe there was a deflection from his flak jacket or maybe the flak jacket stopped the bullet and this is only a secondary wound from the impact on his shoulder, although the amount of blood doesn't seem consistent with that. To me, this doesn't look like an indent - it looks like he lost some skin.
If I am right and he was not hit in his lower back at all, it is more proof that Ali Samoudi is a liar who will say anything for self-promotion and to make Israel look bad. Notice how he switches his video view from the front camera to selfie mode while he is entering the hospital, as he cares more about the drama for his video than his own bullet wound.
