Brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander, Israel alleges

The member of Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, the accused Michigan synagogue attacker, was a Hezbollah violent commandant who was killed successful an Israeli onslaught days earlier the attack, Israeli quality revealed Sunday.

"Hezbollah commandant Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was liable for managing weapons operations wrong a specialized subdivision of the Badr Unit," the Israeli Defense Forces posted Sunday greeting connected X. "The portion is liable for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians passim the war."

"His brother, Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, carried retired the panic onslaught successful Michigan this past Thursday. Ibrahim was eliminated successful an IAF onslaught connected a Hezbollah subject operation past week."

Ayman Ghazali, 41, carried retired his onslaught a week aft Israel bombed his family's municipality successful Lebanon connected March 5, sidesplitting 2 of his brothers and a niece and nephew, according to quality reports.

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Surveillance footage shows Ayman Mohamad Ghazali wrong a Phantom Fireworks store successful Livonia, Michigan, wherever helium purchased much than $2,000 worthy of fireworks days earlier the March 12 synagogue attack. (Obtained by NYPost)

Around the aforesaid clip arsenic the synagogue attack, a antheral convicted successful 2016 connected a national complaint of providing worldly enactment to the Islamic State fatally changeable 1 idiosyncratic and injured 2 others, some U.S. Army personnel, astatine Old Dominion University successful Norfolk, Virginia, which has adjacent ties to the U.S. military. The Virginia attacker, who had been released from situation successful 2024, was killed by Reserve Officer Training Corps students successful the people who subdued him.

In Michigan, the Lebanon-born Ghazali rammed a pickup motortruck laden with fireworks and jugs of gasoline into Temple Israel successful the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, sparking a fire. Ghazali fatally changeable himself successful the caput during a gunfight with a information guard.

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A fireball rises from the tract of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an country successful Beirut's confederate suburbs overnight March 10 to 11, 2026. (Fadel itani / AFP via Getty Images)

The violent ties to the U.S. onslaught enactment caller absorption connected Iranian violent proxies of Hezbollah successful Lebanon.

Israel and Lebanon are expected ​to clasp nonstop talks successful the ‌coming days, their archetypal since the commencement of the Iran warfare that has drawn Lebanon deeper ​into conflict, Israeli paper Haaretz reported Saturday, citing 2 sources with cognition ⁠of the matter.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law ​Jared Kushner volition beryllium progressive successful the ​talks that mightiness beryllium held successful Paris oregon successful Cyprus, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confidant ​Ron Dermer starring the Israeli delegation, Haaretz ​said.

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The negotiations were expected to absorption connected ending warring ‌in ⁠Lebanon and disarming the Lebanese equipped radical Hezbollah, Haaretz said.

Hezbollah opened occurrence connected Israel connected March 2, saying it was retaliating ​for the ​killing of ⁠Iran's ultimate person astatine the commencement of the U.S.-Israeli warfare connected ​Iran.

Israel has since launched an extended ​bombing ⁠campaign against the almighty Lebanese equipped group, which has killed much than 770 radical ⁠and ​displaced hundreds of thousands more, ​while Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets crossed the ​border.

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The IDF posted a video to X connected Saturday showing "Hezbollah terrorists carrying rockets into a limb retention installation successful confederate Lebanon."

While the Badr Unit operates successful confederate Lebanon, according to the Center for Monitoring Security Threats (CMST), the IDF did not marque a nonstop transportation betwixt the video posted, the added absorption connected Hezbollah retaliation against Israel and the violent onslaught successful Michigan.

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Reuters contributed to this report.