What Is Oxycodone, The Drug Allegedly Smuggled By Israel Via Gaza Aid?
Israel is reportedly smuggling Oxycodone into the Gaza Strip by hiding it in bags of flour distributed as humanitarian aid to the starving Gaza population. There are numerous media reports that the drug is not only hidden inside flour bags, but the flour itself appears to be mixed with it.
Oxycodone is a potent opioid used to relieve severe pain when regular painkillers fail, especially for cancer patients.
The drug is said to act on specific receptors in the nervous system, causing severe addiction, a decrease in heart rate, impaired awareness and consciousness, and dangerous respiratory depression. Its side effects are numerous and can transform a person into something unrecognizable—a shell of who they were.
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Oxycodone may cause serious or life-threatening breathing problems, especially during the first 24 to 72 hours of treatment and any time the dose is increased. Oxycodone may harm or cause death to other people who take the medication, especially children.
People from Gaza are claiming to have found this drug in the flour sacks and quoting the Anti-Drug Committee in Gaza.
For those asking about the source, it is the Anti-Drug Committee in Gaza.
Many citizens have found these drugs, and I saw them with my own eyes in the flour sacks.
There is also a doctor named Khalil Abu Nada who wrote a full report on this issue.— Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 (@OmarHamadD) June 26, 2025
However, the claim of Oxycodone being smuggled in flour bags as aid in Gaza lacks are contentious, but aligns with historical use of drug smuggling in conflict zones, such as the 2017 Reuters report on marijuana and tramadol flooding Gaza via Egypt, suggesting a precedent for illicit trafficking.
