Michigan Synagogue Attack Was Hezbollah-Inspired, Targeted Children: FBI

Officials said suspect Ayman Ghazali was on a ’special operation' to kill as many Jews as he possibly could.
Michigan Synagogue Attack Was Hezbollah-Inspired, Targeted Children: FBI
Law enforcement escort families away from the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on March 12, 2026. AP Photo/Paul Sancya
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DETROIT—Investigators said the March 12 attack on a West Bloomfield synagogue was a “Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism.”

Suspect Ayman Ghazali wanted to kill as many Jews as possible and likened himself to being a soldier of Hezbollah, and his act of terrorism was inspired by the Lebanese Shiite Muslim terrorist group, according to investigators who laid out the final day of his life at a press conference Monday at the Detroit FBI office.