The airman, who filmed the incident and could be heard yelling “Free Palestine,” was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after collapsing to the ground.

The airman, who filmed the incident and could be heard yelling “Free Palestine,” was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after collapsing to the ground.

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.

Next of kin notification is continuing, so the Air Force won’t release his name until 24 hours after the final notification is complete.

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, and found the flames extinguished by the Secret Service’s uniformed division.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
    73·
    9 months ago

    Nobody mentioned genocide.

    Aaron Bushnell did. His statement immediately prior to self-immolating was:

    I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers — it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine!

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
        72·
        9 months ago

        This you?

        I truly beleive that this falls under sacrificing yourself to save lives

        Nope. Wrong continent for that. Now if he was on active duty in the IDF you would have an argument.

        Yep, that’s you.

        Anyone justifying the IDF’s actions is cheerleading an intentional genocide. You are cheerleading the intentional murder of over 15,000 children, so far.

        Now that starvation is hitting, those numbers are going to ramp up fast.

        Remember, starvation kills the children of a population first. There is no food in the Gaza Strip because Israel is intentionally blocking its entrance at the Rafah border.

        Today a 3-month old Palestinian baby boy took his last breath because he starved to death. He wasn’t even alive for Oct 7th.