A US soldier was seriously injured while attempting to set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday. The man was taken to hospital with ‘serious, life-threatening injuries’ Images apparently broadcast live by the latter on the streaming platform Twitch, show him, in military uniform, declaring that he "will not be complicit in a genocide" The act came at a time when protests are increasing in the United States against Israel's offensive in Gaza, where the Israeli army is waging a war.