Border Guards Convicted Of Abusing Helpless Palestinian

"I was crying all the time, I told them I have no issue with anything and that I have done nothing. I said 'be merciful, I have done nothing' but they didn’t listen to me...They filmed me, laughing and mocking me."
--From the testimony of a mentally disabled Palestinian man who was abused by four Israeli Border Police officers and had their dog sicced on him.

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