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  • Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say

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  • They didn’t say that there were actually narcotics ground up. That claim was an unsubstantiated “possibility”

    possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself

    People are jumping to conclusions without evidence, and are ignoring the fact that this is one of the few paths in for smugglers, and there is a massive demand for painkillers.

  • Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say

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  • Occam's razor.

    There is a tremendously strong need to get painkillers into Gaza. And smuggler’s drones have been getting shot down. Aid is one of the few channels in. I would expect that someone is going to try to leverage that.

    There are also addicts that are trying to have stuff smuggled in. Prime example of this is something as simple as cigarettes. There are quite a few articles about Israel stopping and intercepting people smuggling in cigarettes.

    But poisoning or getting random people hooked on opioids? It was loose pills, and a more expensive opiate. If this was a scheme to poison or hook people, it’s a complex and dumb one. If you know anything about opiates, you know there are far better and cheaper to hook or kill people if that’s your goal.

  • Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say

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  • If your mom’s dying from cancer or if Netanyahu blew off your brother’s leg, and the hospital can’t get you medical grade opioid painkillers, are you just going to do nothing? Or are you going to try to work with a smuggler to help them out?

    Israel has created a meat grinder and isn’t letting medicine in to hospitals. Desperate people are trying to do whatever they can.

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  • I imagine that other news outlets don’t agree with the allegations of this being to poison people in Gaza. If someone was trying to poison the food, uncrushed oxy pills in flour is a pretty dumb and expensive way to do it.

    People are sick and dying and are desperate for painkillers.

    Also, smugglers have been trying to find ways around the blockades.

    Medical supply / drug smuggling happens in every war. Addicts, and people who are dying and suffering from mangled limbs, want drugs.

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    Vance Boelter, accused of assassination of DFL House leader Melissa Hortman, apprehended

    minnesotareformer.com /2025/06/15/vance-boelter-accused-of-assassination-of-dfl-house-leader-melissa-hortman-apprehended/
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    Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations

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    Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIV

    www.npr.org /2025/05/08/nx-s1-5385327/vatican-white-smoke-new-pope-conclave
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    White House puts up 'Lab Leak’ page on COVID origins

    www.npr.org /sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/g-s1-61324/lab-leak-white-house-covid-origins