{"id":29006,"date":"2024-02-26T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/u-s-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-israeli-embassy-in-d-c-has-died\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T22:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:20:56","slug":"u-s-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-israeli-embassy-in-d-c-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/u-s-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-israeli-embassy-in-d-c-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C. has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in an apparent protest against the Israel-Hamas war has died, according to a U.S. official. <\/p>\n

The airman was identified by police as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio, Texas. <\/p>\n

Dressed in military fatigues, Bushnell <\/strong>filmed himself yelling \u201cFree Palestine\u201d before collapsing to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Police officers outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Feb. 25, 2024. <\/span>Celal Gunes \/ Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a livestream, Bushnell called the Israeli crackdown in Gaza “genocide” and said what he was doing was not as extreme as the suffering of the Palestinian people. <\/p>\n

He then <\/strong>put his phone down, doused himself over the head with a liquid from a water bottle, and then set himself ablaze.<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department responded to a call about a person on fire outside the embassy just before 1 p.m. Sunday. But by the time firefighters arrived, the flames had been extinguished by members of the Secret Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bushnell <\/strong>was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, D.C. Fire and EMS said. <\/p>\n

An Air Force spokesperson confirmed Bushnell was an active-duty Air Force officer. <\/p>\n

The Israeli Embassy said none of its staffers <\/strong>were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The incident comes as the Israel-Hamas war has stretched into its fourth month. <\/p>\n

It follows a similar incident in December when a woman set herself on fire outside the Israeli Consulate General building in Atlanta. A Palestinian flag was recovered from the scene and police described the incident as an \u201cextreme political protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been multiple protests since\u00a0Hamas launched its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostage. Nearly 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza\u00a0since the war began, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said the Israeli military has presented the war Cabinet with a plan for the evacuation of civilians from “fighting areas” in Gaza. It comes as Netanyahu has spoken of a planned ground offensive on Rafah, Gaza\u2019s southernmost city along the border with Egypt, where 1 million Palestinians have sought safety.<\/p>\n

International figures, including United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres,\u00a0have warned against a full-scale Israeli assault on Rafah, citing safety concerns over Palestinians seeking refuge there as well as obstruction of the flow of aid. <\/p>\n

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