B’Tselem has published a new report on the abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank City of Hebron between May and August of this year, Al Jazeera reports.

The report — based on testimonies from 25 Palestinians — describes acts of violence, humiliation and abuse directed by soldiers at men, women, teenagers and children, all of whom had been selected arbitrarily as they went about their daily lives.

B’Tselem said none of the 25 people had been suspected of any offence or prosecuted and were released immediately after being assaulted.

“Victims gave harrowing accounts of physical and psychological abuse, including beatings, whipping, having cigarettes put out on their bodies, blows to their genitals, injection of an unidentified substance, prolonged binding and blindfolding, threats, insults and more,” the report said.

The scale of the violence “reflects a particularly brutal manifestation of a systematic, long-standing policy of oppression, expulsion and dispossession that lies at the root of the Israeli apartheid regime,” it added.