American man lit himself on fire in protest against the killing of innocent people in Gaza

Boston police announced that a person set himself on fire near the Israeli consulate general in the city in protest against the “genocide” being committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza.

News ID: 85009

Date: 15 September 2024 - 10:51

TEHRAN (Defapress) - A man reportedly lit himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with severe burns, and his current condition is unknown. Boston police told reporters that they are investigating the situation.

The group BDS Boston shared a YouTube video uploaded by a man named Matt Nelson who tells viewers he is about to engage in an “extreme act of protest.” The video does not show the actual act.

“We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he tells viewers. “We are slaves to capitalism and the military-industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I’m about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.”

Jefferson Zapata, one of the witnesses, told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that the person poured gasoline on himself before setting himself on fire, adding that he and those in the vicinity poured water on the burning man, in an attempt to extinguish the raging fire.

He is the third person to self-immolate outside an Israeli consulate since Israel began its brutal assault on Gaza nearly one year ago.