Israel says brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander
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The Israeli military said the brother of the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was a Hezbollah commander and was recently killed in an airstrike.
The Israeli military said the brother of the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander and was recently killed in an airstrike.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Sunday that Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was the brother of synagogue assailant Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, and said he was killed by Israeli Air Force strikes in Lebanon.
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The Trump administration and U.S. law enforcement authorities have not released information about Ayman Mohamad Ghazali’s brother. The FBI did not immediately reply to USA TODAY's request for comment.
One of Ghazali's neighbors told The Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, that the assailant's brother was killed in an airstrike. Mo Baydoun, the mayor of Dearborn Heights, where the suspect lived, said he "lost several members of his own family, including his niece and nephew, in an Israeli attack on their home in Lebanon" earlier in March.













