Aaron Bushnell, who died last month, ‘sacrificed everything’ for Palestinians, says mayor of Jericho
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    The Palestinian town of Jericho has named a street after Aaron Bushnell, the US air force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest against the war in Gaza.

    Bushnell livestreamed his self-immolation on the social media platform Twitch, declaring he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and shouting “free Palestine” as he started the fire.

    Even as governments in Europe and the US have largely continued to back Israel’s campaign in Gaza as part of the country’s right to self-defence, Palestinians have taken heart from popular protests held from Michigan to Madrid.

    Amani Rayan, a Jericho city council member who grew up in Gaza and moved to the occupied West Bank to study aged 19, said: “He [Bushnell] sacrificed the most precious thing, whatever your beliefs.

    Much of Rayan’s family is still trapped in Gaza; her uncle was killed in an airstrike on 26 November 2023 with 25 other people and in February her sister nearly died giving birth in a hospital under Israeli attack.

    The then Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader, Yasser Arafat, appeared on the town hall balcony when he returned from decades of exile after the Oslo accords.

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