Buses, security forces vehicles, and fire trucks in front of the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, after an attack, on March 12, 2026. (Credit: Rebecca Cook/ Reuters)
The Israeli military said Sunday that Ayman Mohammad Ghazali, the perpetrator of the attack on a synagogue in Detroit's suburbs in Michigan, was the brother of Ibrahim Mohammad Ghazali, a Hezbollah official within the group's anti-tank missile unit.
According to the Israeli army's Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee, Ibrahim was killed in an Israeli strike on March 5 in the town of Mashghara in West Bekaa. Another of his brothers died in the same strike, according to Lebanese media. The Israeli military has not revealed the latter’s identity.
Ayman Mohammad Ghazali, 41, arrived in Detroit in 2011 on a spousal visa. He became a U.S. citizen in 2016, according to FBI agent Jennifer Runyan. Security officers shot him after he rammed the synagogue gates with a pickup truck and opened fire from his vehicle. He then became trapped inside his burning vehicle and shot himself in the head "at some point during the gunfire," the agent said.
Radwan Force headquarters targeted
The Israeli military claimed other attacks, including the killing on Friday in Lebanon of a Palestinian who "was working for Iranian intelligence services." Mohammad Majed Abdel Salam Zeidan was killed "in a joint operation by the Israeli military and the internal security service," Avichay Adraee said on X. He added that the slain man "was operating under the supervision of the intelligence services" of the Iranian regime and was attempting to "promote attack plans" in Israel. The Israeli military did not specify where Zeidan was killed, and the video released alongside the spokesman's statement appeared to show he was killed in an airstrike on a building.
The military also said in its statement that it carried out new airstrikes Saturday in Lebanon "against Hezbollah infrastructure," including "launch sites located in the Qatrani region" (Jezzine district) where attacks were being prepared. It added that it had targeted in Beirut a "Radwan Force headquarters," Hezbollah’s elite unit, which served "to plan operations against Israel."
Arabic-language spokesperson Ella Waweya also said on X that "Hezbollah systematically places its infrastructure amid residential areas in civilian regions throughout Lebanon."
Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed 850 people since March 2, including 107 children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry announced Sunday. Among those killed are 66 women and 32 health care workers, the ministry said, adding that 2,105 people have been injured in two weeks of fighting.
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