A sniper in the Israeli police’s anti-terror unit testified that a senior police official gave officers permission to fire at the legs of demonstrators during Israeli Arab riots in the town of Umm el-Fahm last October. The sniper appeared before a commission investigating the police killings of 13 Israeli Arabs during the riots in northern Israel.
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