Hezbollah Claims Aussie Killed by Israeli Airstrike as Jihadi Martyr

An Australian citizen killed in Lebanon, Ibrahim Bazzi, was a simple construction worker, friends and family say, yet the terrorist group is claiming him as one of its own, providing a funeral with full military honors.

AP/Mohammed Zaatari
Mourners carry what are said to be the coffins of a Hezbollah fighter and two civilians who were killed by an Israeli airstrike, at Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon, December 27, 2023. AP/Mohammed Zaatari

An Australian citizen killed earlier this week by an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon was a simple construction worker — so claim Ibrahim Bazzi’s friends and family at Sydney — yet the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon is claiming Bazzi as one of its own, providing a funeral with full military honors to Ibrahim, his wife Sharouk Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi.

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