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U.S. Airman Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Gaza Protest

‘EXTREME ACT OF PROTEST’

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” Aaron Bushnell, 25, said.

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Police have confirmed the death of an active-duty airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in a protest against the “genocide” in Gaza.

Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old based in San Antonio, Texas, walked up to the embassy building on Sunday afternoon in combat uniform, carrying...

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