Terrorist Ayman Muhammad Ghazali (41), who rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on Thursday March 12, had deep Hezbollah family ties.

Ghazali has been on the FBI watch list since 2019, per the New York Post.

The IDF confirmed today, Sunday, that his brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on March 5, just a week before the attack.

Ibrahim oversaw weapons operations in Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, which launched hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians during the war.

Ayman Ghazali, a Lebanese-born naturalized U.S. citizen (since 2016), drove into the synagogue, exchanged fire with security injuring a guard, and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The FBI calls it a targeted attack on the Jewish community; children and staff were safely evacuated.