(CNN) \u2014 A week before Thursday\u2019s attack on a Michigan synagogue, the suspect\u2019s two brothers and two of their children were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, the mayor of the Lebanese village where they lived told CNN.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security said that Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, drove a vehicle laden with explosives into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit. It then caught fire, in what the FBI called a \u201ctargeted act of violence against the Jewish community.\u201d The FBI said the agency is continuing to investigate the attack.<\/p>\n
Ghazali was killed after security officers for the synagogue engaged him and \u201cneutralized the threat,\u201d West Bloomfield Police Chief Dale Young said Thursday. One security officer was hurt in the attack, and at least 30 law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Iskandar Barakeh, the mayor of Mashghara, Lebanon, said in a phone interview that Ghazali\u2019s brothers, Kassim and Ibrahim, were killed in an Israeli airstrike there on March 5, along with Ibrahim\u2019s children, Ali and Fatima. The two men\u2019s wives and Ghazali\u2019s parents also sustained injuries, Barakeh said.<\/p>\n
Three Israeli airstrikes have recently hit the village, which is about 30 miles southeast of Beirut, including an attack on a financial institution associated with the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah that damaged a nearby school, according to Barakeh. While some residents initially left the village, many have begun returning recently, he said.<\/p>\n