Israeli military also says on social media brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was ‘eliminated in airstrike last week’
Israel’s military claimed on Sunday that the brother of the recent Michigan synagogue attacker was a Hezbollah commander responsible for managing weapons in a unit that has launched “hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians”.
In a statement posted on X, the IDF claimed that Ibrahim Mohamad Ghazali – brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali – was a Hezbollah commander within a specialized branch of the Badr unit.
Ibrahim Ghazali “was eliminated in an [Israeli air force] strike on a Hezbollah military structure last week”, the IDF’s post said. Ayman Ghazali shot himself to death when security at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, confronted him after his attack there on Thursday.
Separately, a Hezbollah official reportedly confirmed to the New York Times that Ayman Ghazali’s attack on Temple Israel, one of the largest in the country, was revenge for the loss of four family members during an Israeli military strike in Lebanon on 5 March. But that official neither confirmed nor denied the IDF’s claim that Ibrahim Ghazali was a Hezbollah fighter.
