U.S. Air Force Member Dies After Setting Himself on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy

An active-duty U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday has died, officials said.

The man repeatedly said “Free Palestine” and appeared to livestream the protest Sunday afternoon on the platform Twitch, which has since removed the video. The Metropolitan Police Department identified him as Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old from San Antonio.

Bushnell died in a hospital on Sunday night, the police and the Air Force said.

Bushnell appeared to say during the episode that he didn’t want to be complicit in genocide and wanted to engage in an extreme act of protest. He was likely referring to the Israel-Hamas War and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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