US-Israeli aid distributor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been widely condemned for possible complicity in war crimes

The Gaza government media office on Friday condemned the discovery of oxycodone pills reportedly discovered in flour bags distributed by “American-Israeli” aid centres.

“We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside the flour bags,” it said in a statement, warning of the “possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself”.

Oxycodone is an opioid meant to treat severe and long-term pain, often prescribed to cancer patients.

The drug is highly addictive and can have life-threatening effects, including breathing complications and hallucinations.

The media office’s statement comes after several social media posts shared images of pills purportedly discovered in flour bags in Gaza.

  • Seleni@lemmy.world
    414·
    18 hours ago

    What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

    To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

    There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

    -Frederick Douglas

    We’ve never really been great, unless you were White and Male. But we have been good at selling the grift.

    Good on you for seeing past the lie.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      73·
      14 hours ago

      I’d argue that a nation which has slowly and tediously addressed those things is great.

      I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia, so don’t feel obligated to find any good in the US.

      • Maeve@midwest.social
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Critical support is okay, but if we dismiss our wrongs to the point progress stalls and reverses because of complacency, that’s something that needs addressing, along with failure to be disabused of cherished illusions and delusions.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        6 hours ago

        I know this is Lemmy, and you can also only say good things about China and Russia

        That’s just .ml and their alts.

      • Seleni@lemmy.world
        131·
        13 hours ago

        Goodness no, I hate the Russian and Chinese government. They can all go take a long walk off a short pier.

        And the fact that we can address these things, and occasionally change them (unlike China and Russia), is I suppose a bit encouraging.

        But that’s small encouragement next to the mass slavery, targeted attacks, and disenfranchisement throughout our history, and so much of it by regular everyday citizens cheerfully doing terrible things to other regular everyday citizens, no (or very little) government involvement required.

        And it’s still going today. The majority of people in this country refused to vote, or voted for a felon who ran on a program of destroying the constitution, over a PoC woman. Because they liked Trump’s message more, or, even more damning, figured that since they probably wouldn’t be impacted, it didn’t matter.