Ayman Mohamad Ghazali attacked Michigan synagogue after his Hezbollah brothers were killed in Lebanon strikes

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, the Lebanese immigrant now dead after plowing his vehicle into a synagogue in in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan on Thursday, had two brothers that were recently killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon who were also members of the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Ghazali’s brothers, Qasim and Ibrahim, were reportedly killed in an Israeli strike and were members of Hezbollah, according to a Lebanese official that spoke to Sky News.

Ghazali was born in Lebanon but became a naturalized US citizen and resident of Dearborn. He was shot dead by security guards after he drove a vehicle filled with explosives through the doors of the Temple Israel synagogue and preschool in West Bloomfield near Detroit. Ghazali died at the scene after engaging in a gunfight with security and was found after the fire the vehicle caused caused was extinguished.

After the shooting, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said on X, “This is circulating on Hezbollah social media about MI attack on synagogue: A young man from the Lebanese town of Mashghara named Ayman Ghazali, brother of ‘martyrs’ Qasim and Ibrahim. Ayman is an expatriate in the U.S. He opened fire a short while ago on Israelis in America in revenge for the ‘martyrdom’ of his brothers and was ‘martyred’ after ‘killing 10 Zionists.’”

Other reports on X indicated that the two brothers to Ghazali were part of the terrorist group.

After the attack took place on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement, "The tragic attack on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan was carried out by Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. He was born in Lebanon on January 4, 1985. He entered the United States on May 10, 2011 at Detroit Metropolitan International Airport on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen after alien relative and fiancé petitions filed in December 2009 were approved in April 2010. He applied for naturalization on October 20, 2015 and was granted U.S. citizenship on February 5, 2016 under the Obama administration."

 

After Ghazali drove the vehicle into the synagogue and was killed, Dearborn Mayor Mo Baydoun issues a statement that critics called sympathetic to the terror attack. "Earlier today," he said, "we learned that the individual responsible for the incident that took place at Temple Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield was a resident of Dearborn Heights. He died at the scene. Earlier this month, he lost several members of his own family, including his niece and nephew, in an Israeli attack on their home in Lebanon."