Tuesday, February 27, 2024

US Air Force member died setting himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy Washington DC #FreePalestine Aaron Bushnell 1999-2024

"I would have tried with all my might to talk Aaron Bushnell out of killing himself because things do get better and I would have liked for this courageous and beautiful soul to have lived to see that. He was the epitome of a soldier. Memory eternal, dear Aaron." Nancy Harb Almendras

 

from Palestine- Hanan Ashrawi


Who was Aaron Bushnell?

"Aaron Bushnell — the Air Force engineer who died hours after lighting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in DC on Sunday — was a 25-year-old IT engineer-in-training who hailed from a tiny Massachusetts town.

Bushnell livestreamed his gruesome final moments — chilling footage that included him calmly walking to his final destination outside the embassy’s gates before dousing himself in a flammable liquid and lighting it, sending him up in flames.

The steely-eyed serviceman, dressed in his camouflage uniform, said in the video, “I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza].

“I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” he added before repeatedly screaming, “Free Palestine!’’ as fire engulfed him and he eventually collapsed. "

 https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/who-was-aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire/

 

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