A man set himself ablaze at the front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Photo courtesy: Google map view.
A man set himself on fire on Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
It was later confirmed on Sunday night by A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, that the man was an active-duty airman, the report said.
The fire was eventually extinguished outside the embassy by the officers with the U.S. Secret Service, the fire department's spokesperson said.
The man was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition, the report said.
There were no embassy staff members with injury, and all were accounted for, according to Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the embassy.
The man appeared to have filmed the protective-streamed reamed on the social media platform Twitch at the time that the police said they responded to the incident.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” a man said in the video, echoing language that opponents of Israel’s military action in Gaza have used to describe the campaign. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” he added
According to the reports, the man stood in front of the embassy gates and he set his phone down to film dousing himself in a clear liquid from a metal bottle. He then lit himself on fire while yelling “Free Palestine!” until he fell to the ground.
The video showed law enforcement officers approaching him shortly before the fire caught. One could be heard off-camera saying: “Can I help you, sir?” The officers then scrambled for more than a minute to put out the flames.
The video was removed on Sunday afternoon and replaced with a message stating that the channel violated Twitch’s guidelines. It was the only video posted to the account, which had a Palestinian flag as its header image.
警方稱，一名男子在以色列駐華盛頓大使館前自焚
據大都會警察局稱，週日下午，一名男子在以色列駐華盛頓大使館外自焚。
報道稱，美國空軍發言人安·斯特凡內克 (Ann Stefanek) 於週日晚上證實，該男子是一名現役飛行員。
消防局發言人說，美國特勤局官員最終在使館外撲滅了火災。
報道稱，男子被送往附近醫院，傷勢危及生命，目前仍處於危急狀態。
當警方表示他們對這一事件做出回應時，這名男子似乎在社群媒體平台 Twitch 上拍攝了這段保護性的影片。
「我將不再參與種族滅絕，」一名男子在影片中說道，這呼應了以色列在加薩軍事行動的反對者用來描述這場行動的語言。
「我即將採取極端的抗議行動，」他補充道
據報道，該男子站在使館大門前，放下手機，拍攝了自己將自己浸入金屬瓶中的透明液體中的畫面。 然後他一邊高喊「自由巴勒斯坦！」一邊自焚。 直到他倒在地上。
影片顯示，在火災發生前不久，執法人員接近了他。 可以聽到鏡頭外有人說： “先生，我可以幫你嗎？” 隨後，警察們奮力撲救一分多鐘才將火勢撲滅。
該影片於週日下午被刪除，取而代之的是一條訊息，指出該頻道違反了 Twitch 的準則。 這是發佈到該帳戶的唯一視頻，其標題圖像是巴勒斯坦國旗。
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