Matt Knight🍉

@joannekarma @ukiswitheu It really is "The Thick of It" stuff, isn't it. They're not even competent enough to pretend to be competent - they literally can't even communicate normally with a sense of compassion or understanding when that, at this particular moment, is the one job they have to do.

After Israel’s triple-tap massacre of ambulance crews in Lebanon, it targets water delivery drivers in Gaza. Daily war crimes that defy humanity

UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed. Full statement: unicef.link/4cVCyP9

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

A displaced child from northern Gaza, in tears, carries his younger sister while walking south under dire humanitarian conditions caused by Israel's offensive on the enclave

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes. apnews.com/article/israel…

UN says it's genocide. HRC says it's genocide. PVA says it's genocide. ICJ says it's genocide. ICC says it's genocide. Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide. Everyone is lying except Israel who are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

As I attended the CoI press conference today in Genf, someone asked me if I’m "happy" that they confirmed my findings. Absolutely NOT. I wish I had been wrong. I wish there had be no genocide still ongoing, 18 months after my report, with neither end nor accountability in sight.

“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza. ohchr.org/sites/default/…

There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know. As Israeli authorities and forces intensify their brutal campaign of annihilation, particularly in Gaza City, the UN Commission of Inquiry's damning new report provides further confirmation of what Amnesty International and others have been concluding for months: that the Israeli authorities and Israeli forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

In the Netherlands, the car where Hind Rajab spent her last moments under 355 bullets from the Israeli army has been turned into a symbol. Her death marks a grim chapter in Zionist history.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry. nbcnews.com/world/gaza/isr…

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say bbc.in/42bgCdY

We've fact-checked Rylan Clark's claims about migration after he provoked an angry backlash for a rant about small boat crossings on This Morning.

How many illegal immigrants are living in the UK? Are they put up in ‘four star hotels’? Are phones and iPads provided? Following comments made by Rylan Clarke, BBC Verify Policy Correspondent Ben Chu goes through the data and information for #Newsnight

"Rylan is not an ideologue. He is exactly the sort of person the government should be talking to." Rylan's migrant rant was full of far-right misinformation – and the government is to blame for its lack of effort to lead UK conversation on asylum seekers thenewsagents.co.uk/article/rylans…

Left: Rylan, "If I arrive on a boat in Calais, I get taken to a four star hotel" Right: Newsnight show what one of these four star hotels looks like once it has been adapted to house four asylum seekers in a single room with two bunkbeds and a tacky divider Dear @Rylan some of your concern is perfectly normal and valid, and with 70,000 spaces in asylum accommodation oversubscribed because the Conservatives cut funding to assessing asylum seeker claims resulting in setting up hotels to house asylum seekers, awarding some contracts well over £1 billion to hotel owners, some of who have also been donors to the Conservative party, the whole thing stinks But what's worse is that you've repeated some mistruths and false statements about asylum seekers in your rant, and while I don't blame you for having expressed those views as Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer, instead of challenging and correcting these falsehoods, has decided to become a pound shop Reform-like populist with his divisive rhetoric, who could blame you for being so misinformed? I encourage you to seek better information, better explanations, and perhaps if it really bothers you, to use your huge reach and platform to petition our government to do better eg ending homelessness Remember how at the start of covid we managed to end homelessness within a few days? Not only is it possible but it's simply a question of government policy (in fairness to Labour they are doing quite a lot, just not enough and not at the speed they could be doing it) But, and I say this politely. Reform UK are not your friends. By wanting to take us out of the European Convention of Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act, they're taking away the very institutions that helped shape gay rights in our country and allowed you not only to flourish, but simply have the right to live your life however you wish - the moment those protections and rights are lost, society suffers There's nothing worse than getting angry and upset at incorrect things e.g. the four star hotel trope often levied by the far right Instead, become better informed, so you can get angry and upset at the actual things that are wrong with the system, and help campaign to change them

Musician and human rights activist Annie Lennox has endorsed the call from the London Freelance Chapel of the @NUJ for Keir Starmer and his Goverment to act now to protect journalists in Gaza - many of whom have been smeared by Isreal with unsubstantiated claims.

Hind rajab - 5 years old - 355 bullets Never forget.

Norway to donate the profits of their game against Israel to aid causes in Gaza. Ahead of their World Cup qualifier in October, the NFF have stated that they “cannot remain indifferent to the humanitarian suffering" in the region.