According to authorities, a man lit himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington

Washington: The Metropolitan Police Department reports that a guy set himself on fire on Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

According to Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman for the city’s fire department, the US Secret Service put out the fire outside the embassy in northwest Washington at about one in the afternoon. With potentially fatal wounds, the guy was sent to a local hospital and is still in serious condition.
Tal Naim, an embassy spokeswoman, said that no employees were hurt and that everyone was present.

At the time that police claimed to have reacted to the event, the individual seems to have recorded the demonstration and livestreamed it on Twitch. The video showed a guy approaching the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, but the New York Times was unable to identify the user that uploaded it.

In the video, a guy said, “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” using words that opponents of Israel’s military assault in the Gaza Strip have used to characterize the operation. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest.”
He put down his phone and filmed himself drenching himself in a transparent liquid from a metal bottle as he stood in front of the embassy gates. Then, crying “Free Palestine!” until he collapsed on the ground, he set himself on fire.

Just before the fire started, police enforcement personnel could be seen approaching him in the footage. Off-camera, one person was heard asking, “Can I help you, sir?” After then, the cops frantically worked for almost a minute to extinguish the fire.
The channel broke Twitch’s rules, therefore on Sunday afternoon, the video was taken down and replaced with a notice. The account included a header picture of a Palestinian flag, and that was the sole video uploaded to it.

The individual identified himself as an active-duty US Air Force officer and was wearing fatigues in the video. His name in the video corresponds to a Texas-based active-duty Air Force officer’s LinkedIn page. The man’s identification has not been verified by the authorities, and an inquiry for response from the Air Force was not immediately answered.

Additionally, officers searched a suspicious car in the area for explosives, but according to police spokesman Sean Hickman, the site had been cleared by 4 p.m. The event was investigated by agents from the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Washington’s explosive ordnance disposal team.

Since Israel started its assault in Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught, which resulted in at least 1,200 deaths, protests against Israel have spread throughout the nation almost daily, according to Israeli authorities. The humanitarian catastrophe has worsened in recent months, prompting increased appeals from throughout the world for a humanitarian cease-fire.

As the number of civilian deaths in the destroyed enclave rises—more than 29,000, according to Gaza Health Ministry officials—protests against the war in Gaza have been ongoing at the embassy.
Arrests have sometimes occurred from protests, although violence has seldom occurred. As per the authorities, the December self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Atlanta was “likely an extreme act of political protest.”