[Reposted from /news/. I don't usually do that much anymore but this one is important.]
>A U.S. service member was in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, authorities said.
>A video posted online showed a man shouting "Free Palestine" as he burned during the incident, which lasted about a minute before law enforcement officers extinguished the flames about 1pm.
>The man appeared to be in military uniform and identified himself as "an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force." Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek confirmed via email Sunday evening that "an active duty Airman was involved in today's incident."
>The man said in the video he would "no longer be complicit in genocide," which the Israeli military was accused of committing in Gaza in an International Court of Justice case brought by South Africa. "I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest."
>The airman, whom officials had not publicly identified, was transported with "critical life threatening injuries to an area hospital," D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said in a post to X.
