“15 children and a woman suffered from poisoning and seizures after eating canned food left by the Israeli occupation army east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood during a previous incursion into the area," the statement purportedly said.
The Civil Defense warned Palestinians against eating any canned food or food products they might find, especially dairy products, saying "the occupation army may deliberately leave spoiled food items in order to harm those who eat them."
I could not find this announcement on the Gaza civil defense Telegram channel. This seems to have originated in Turkish media (the image above comes from Yeni Akit) and then a couple of Arabic sites picked it up from there. It may have been made up, or perhaps it is a twisting of a story in the summer of Gazans getting sickened from eating foods that had spoiled in the sun when agencies didn't pick them up.
The IDF hasn't been in that neighborhood since July.
When Turkish and Arabic media and their audiences are antisemitic, every story accusing Jews of crimes is believed no matter how utterly dumb it is.
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