"Free Palestine": US Airman Dies After Setting Himself On Fire Over Gaza
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Emergency responders arrived to find that officers from the Secret Service -- the US law enforcement agency tasked with protecting embassies in Washington -- had already extinguished the fire.
An active member of the US Air Force has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington over the weekend in protest of the war in Gaza, the Pentagon said Monday.
Emergency responders on Sunday had rushed to the scene just before 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) in response to a "call for person on fire outside the Israeli Embassy," according to a message on X, formerly Twitter, by the capital city's fire department.
They arrived to find that officers from the Secret Service -- the US law enforcement agency tasked with protecting embassies in Washington -- had already extinguished the fire.
