The Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Friday that it had received testimonies from citizens who discovered narcotic pills inside flour sacks originating from what are known as “death traps”—aid centers reportedly managed under the framework of U.S.-Israeli assistance.
In an official statement, the office confirmed it had documented four separate accounts of individuals who found *Oxycodone*—a potent opioid painkiller—inside flour bags distributed by these centers, which the statement labeled as “death traps.”
The statement warned of a grave public health threat, suggesting the pills may have been intentionally ground or dissolved into the flour itself, describing the act as a “direct assault on public health.”
It held Israel fully responsible for what it called a “heinous crime” aimed at spreading addiction and dismantling the fabric of Palestinian society from within, as part of what it described as a systematic policy. The office framed the incident as an extension of the ongoing genocide committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.
The statement further condemned the alleged use of drugs as a “soft weapon in a dirty war targeting civilians,” and accused Israel of exploiting the blockade to smuggle narcotics under the guise of humanitarian aid—actions it classified as war crimes and grave violations of international humanitarian law.
The Government Media Office called on the international community and United Nations agencies to shut down these so-called “death trap” centers, describing them as daily tools of “deliberate killing, entrapment, and genocide.”
It also urged an end to the blockade on Gaza and demanded that all aid be channeled exclusively through official international institutions—foremost among them the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)—to prevent Israel or its affiliates from undermining the role of legitimate humanitarian organizations.