Gaza
\nThe Palestinian city of Jericho has named a street after Aaron Bushnell, the US Air Force member who died after setting himself on fire to protest Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza, The Guardian has reported.
\nBushnell set himself alight outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25, declaring he would \u201cno longer be complicit to genocide.\u201d The 25-year-old airman livestreamed the incident, and was heard screaming \u201cfree Palestine\u201d as he burned. Law enforcement officials put out the flames, but Bushnell died in hospital several hours later.
\nAt a ceremony unveiling the street sign in Jericho, Mayor Abdul Karim Sidr stated that the former airman had \u201csacrificed everything\u201d for Palestinians, The Guardian reported.
\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t know him, and he didn\u2019t know us. There were no social, economic or political ties between us. What we share is a love for freedom and a desire to stand against these attacks [on Gaza],\u201d the official reportedly told a group of people gathered on Aaron Bushnell Road.
\nJericho, a historic site in the West Bank, is often seen as the gate to Palestine and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth.
\nThe city has also named a square in honor of South Africa, after its government\u2019s legal action accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), according to the article.
\nPretoria has accused Israel of committing \u201csystematic\u201d acts of genocide in Gaza. The ICJ, which has yet to issue a final ruling, said in January that the Jewish state must take steps to prevent genocide and improve humanitarian conditions for Gaza\u2019s civilians.
\n\u201cThese names will focus attention of both the locals and visitors,\u201d the mayor of Jericho was quoted as saying, adding that they were following a precedent set after the death of activist Rachel Corrie. A street in Ramallah was named after the American activist, who was killed by the Israeli army in 2003 after being run over by a bulldozer while trying to prevent the military from destroying homes in Gaza.
\nAnti-Israel demonstrations have been held in major cities around the world after the Jewish state began its strikes on Gaza, in response to the surprise Hamas attack on October 7 which killed around 1,200 people and saw more than 200 taken hostage.
\nIsrael has declared war on the Palestinian militant group, insisting on its goal to completely \u201celiminate\u201d Hamas in Gaza. More than 31,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gaza The Palestinian city of Jericho has named a street after Aaron Bushnell, the US Air Force member who died after setting himself on fire to protest Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza, The Guardian has reported. Bushnell set himself alight outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25, declaring he would \u201cno longer be complicit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n