内容摘要：A marathon runner who said he refused to be defined by a mental illness he had as a child has been pounding the pavements as part of a 365-day challenge.

A marathon runner who said he refused to be defined by a mental illness he had as a child has been pounding the pavements as part of a 365-day challenge.

The soldier also says he witnessed prisoners being blindfolded and not allowed to move “for basically their entire stay… and given amounts of food that were shocking”.When his first tour of duty ended he vowed not to return.

The IDF referred me to a statement from last May which said any abuse of detainees was strictly prohibited. It also said three meals a day were provided, “of quantity and variety approved by a qualified nutritionist”. It said handcuffing of detainees was only carried out “where the security risk requires it” and “every day an examination is carried out… to make sure that the handcuffs are not too tight”.The UN has said reports of alleged torture and sexual violence by Israeli guards were “grossly illegal and revolting” and enabled by “absolute impunity”.Michael Ofer-Ziv, 29, knew two people from his village who were killed on 7 October,

whose body was paraded through Gaza on the back of a pickup truck in what became one of the most widely shared images of the war. “That was hell,” he says.Michael was already a committed left-winger who advocated political not military solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But, like his comrades, he felt reporting for reserve duty was correct. “I knew that the military action was inevitable… and was justified in a way, but I was very worried about the shape it might take.”

His job was to work as an operations officer in a brigade war room, watching and directing action relayed back from drone cameras in Gaza. At times the physical reality of the war hit home.

“We went to get some paper from somewhere in the main command of the Gaza area,” he remembers. “And at some point we opened the window… and the stench was like a butchery… Like in the market, where it's not very clean.”A trial date is yet to be set.

Thousands of cannabis plants have been seized after an operation by police forces across the South West.Officers from Avon and Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit were involved in Operation Mille.

The scheme, which included almost 40 arrests, was aimed at tackling the growing threat of organised crime groups and their involvement in the illegal drug supply chain.Avon and Somerset Police acting Det Ch Insp, Matthew Lloyd, said the operation demonstrated what can be achieved "when police forces take a united stand".