India, March 16 -- Three days after 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove a car into a synagogue in Michigan and opened fire at security guards, Israel's military has claimed that the brother of the accused was a Hezbollah commander.

Ghazali, originally from Lebanon, waited in his car outside a synagogue in Detroit suburb for two hours before ramming into the building where dozens of children were inside. He was shot and killed by security personnel at the site.

The Israeli military said Ghazali's brother Ibrahim Ghazali was a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon who managed weapons for a unit that fired rockets at Israel, Associated Press reported.

The report said that Ibrahim was killed in Lebanon along with three other relatives on Marc...