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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.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago (22 children)

FFS...

60yrs ago, I was proud and counted myself lucky to be both an American and a Texan... Now, I'm just embarrassed to be either one of these.

How far both have fallen. I'm just devastated, chastened, sorry, and personally hurt I've lived long enough to witness the complete demise of both entities.

🤡 🖕 💩 💩

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day 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.

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