The American military where he set himself on fire yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington succumbed of his injuries and died last night, the US military announced today, clarifying that will be made public “additional information”.

Representative of the American air force confirmed to AFP the information that the man was currently serving in her ranks, without going into more details.

The soldier was hospitalized in critical condition after setting himself on fire in front of the embassy of Israel in Washington yesterday Sunday.

The media reported that he carried out the said walk in protest of him war in the Gaza Strip.

Images streamed live on the Twitch platform showed him in military garb, declaring that he “will not be an accomplice to genocide, dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself on fire while shouting ‘Freedom in Palestine!’ until it falls to the ground.

First responders rushed to the scene shortly before 13:00 (local time; 20:00 Greek time) following a call about “a person engulfed in flames in front of the Israeli embassy,” explained via X (the formerly Twitter) the fire department of the federal capital of the USA.

When they arrived, they found that members of the Secret Service—the agency that guards dignitaries and foreign diplomatic missions—had extinguished the fire. The man was rushed to a hospital with “serious life-threatening injuries”, according to the same source.