{"id":17911,"date":"2026-03-13T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/17911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:53:12","slug":"mayor-says-michigan-synagogue-attacker-lost-family-members-in-strikes-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/17911\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor says Michigan synagogue attacker lost family members in strikes on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WEYI) \u2014 The mayor of the city where the West Bloomfield synagogue attacker was a resident has released information on 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED LINK:<a href=\"https:\/\/midmichigannow.com\/news\/local\/michigan-synagogue-attacker-identified-by-federal-officals-west-bloomfield-jewish-community-vehicle-ramming-lebanon-naturalized-citizen-department-of-homeland-security-immigrant-visa?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/midmichigannow.com\/news\/local\/michigan-synagogue-attacker-identified-by-federal-officals-west-bloomfield-jewish-community-vehicle-ramming-lebanon-naturalized-citizen-department-of-homeland-security-immigrant-visa?teaserSource=trending\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michigan synagogue attacker identified by federal officials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon, lost several family members in an attack Israel made on Lebanon earlier this year, according to Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun.<\/p>\n<p>You can see and read that full statement below:<\/p>\n<p>RELATED LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/midmichigannow.com\/news\/local\/michigan-police-on-high-alert-after-third-church-attack-in-less-than-a-year\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/midmichigannow.com\/news\/local\/michigan-police-on-high-alert-after-third-church-attack-in-less-than-a-year\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michigan law enforcement on high alert after third church attack in less than a year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security says that Ghazali came to the U.S. in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>He was then granted U.S. citizenship in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators have called Thursday\u2019s incident at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty first responders had to be treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that thankfully, no teachers or children at the synagogue\u2019s school were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WEYI) \u2014 The mayor of the city where the West Bloomfield synagogue attacker was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9184,9185,37,4498,93,8576,8781,8537],"class_list":{"0":"post-17911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-attacker","9":"tag-ayman-ghazali","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jewish-community","12":"tag-lebanon","13":"tag-michigan","14":"tag-synagogue","15":"tag-west-bloomfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116222676383410875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}