A member of the US Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington Israel-Hamas war He died according to a US official.
The next of kin warning goes on, so Air Force will not reveal the name until 24 hours after the last notification is completed.
The District of Columbia Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to a call about a man on fire outside the embassy just before 1 p.m. Sunday and found the flames extinguished by a uniformed unit of the Secret Service.
The pilot filmed the action as he fell to the ground shouting “Free Palestine”.
In a live broadcast, he called Israel’s crackdown on Gaza “genocide” and said it was not as extreme as the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Dressed in military fatigues, he put down his phone, poured liquid from a water bottle over his head and set himself on fire.
DC Fire and EMS said the man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. An Air Force spokesman confirmed he was on active duty.
The embassy reported that there were no injuries.
The incident coincides with the end of the fourth month of the Israel-Hamas war.
In December, a man watches another event He set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Consulate General building in Atlanta. The Palestinian flag was taken from the scene, and the police described the incident as an “extreme political protest”.
Since then, many protests have been held Hamas launched an attack against Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking about 240 hostages. About 30,000 people died in Gaza since the war beganThis was reported by the Ministry of Health of Palestine.
Israel’s military presented a gift to the war cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Monday. A plan to evacuate civilians from “battle zones” in Gaza. It comes as Netanyahu spoke of a planned ground attack on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city on the border with Egypt, where 1 million Palestinians have sought safety.
There are international figures, including United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres He warned against a large-scale attack by Israel in Rafah, citing security concerns about Palestinians seeking refuge there and hampering the flow of aid.
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