US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell has died from his injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, authorities confirmed on Monday.
A US official confirmed 25-year-old Bushnell’s death to NBC News on Monday, though did not provide a cause of death.
Officials were still notifying next of kin so his death has not been officially announced, the outlet said.
A harrowing video livestreamed on Twitch on Sunday afternoon appeared to show the 25-year-old serviceman dressed in uniform standing in front of the embassy and identifying himself as a member of the US Air Force.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” Bushnell reportedly said, before setting himself ablaze and repeatedly crying out “Free Palestine.”
Just hours before his deadly act of self-immolation, Bushnell posted a final message on Facebook.
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now,” he wrote.
The message included a link to the Twitch livestream, which was later removed for violating the platform’s community guidelines.
In the now-deleted video, Bushnell was sprayed with a fire extinguisher before firefighters arrived on the scene to take him to the hospital with life-threatening injuries around 1 p.m. He was initially listed in critical condition.
No embassy staff were injured during the fire, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, according to GLZ Radio.
Bushnell was not known to the embassy before the incident, the statement added.
The airman had served with the US Air Force for nearly four years and was based in San Antonio, Texas, according to his LinkedIn profile.
For the past year, Bushnell worked as a software engineer while pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Southern New Hampshire University.
The Metropolitan DC Police, the US Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating the deadly incident.