A United States airman has died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC on Sunday, shouting “free Palestine”.
25-year-old Aaron Bushnell was taken to hospital after Secret Service officers extinguished the flames.
Before setting himself alight in what he called an “extreme act of protest”, he said he would “no longer be complicit in genocide”.
According to a spokeswoman, no embassy staff members were injured in what she called a tragic event
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