Jihad Mughniyah

Jihad Mughniyeh
Portrait of Jihad Mughniyah
Hezbollah Head of Security
Personal details
Born	(1991-05-02)2 May 1991 Lebanon
Died	18 January 2015(2015-01-18) (aged 23) Golan Heights, Quneitra Governorate, Syria
Nationality	Lebanese
Political party	Hezbollah
Father	Imad Mughniyah
Religion	Shia Islam

Jihad Mughniyah (Template:Lang-age جهاد مغنية; 2 May 1991 – 18 January 2015) was a prominent member of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah and the son of Imad Mugniyah. He was killed in 2015 in the Mazraat Amal incident, an airstrike attributed to Israel.

Biography

Jihad Mughniyah was the son of Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyah, a Lebanese Islamist who fought against Israel and the United States in the Middle East in a series of Guerrilla warfare. He was of Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese descent. Jihad was born in Tayr Dibba, near Tyre. He was the third and youngest child of Imad Mughniyah.^[1][2] in 1991 his family-without Imad Mughniyah- went to Iran for security reasons.^[3] Later they came back to Lebanon and began their life in South Lebanon.^[4] Jihad became well known in Iran last year by sharing his pictures of him standing behind Qasem Solaimani in Soleimani’s mother’s funeral.^[5] In 2008, his father was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria at a party^[6] as part of an apparent joint Mossad-CIA operation.^[7] Jihad Mughniyah proclaimed his allegiance to new Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a week after the assassination of his father, blaming Israel for the killing. Some sources says he was one of the Hassan Nasrallah bodyguards.^[8] Jihad Mughniyah became a senior commander of Hezbollah but despite his hard work Jihad shared most of his time with his younger cousin Joul and the fact that he pledged allegiance to the main leader of the group strengthened the resolve of the organization. Mughniyah planned for a massive attack on Israel at the same time as the Syrian Civil War including infiltration, shooting, assassinations, suicide bombings, anti-tank attacks, and missile attacks with the intent of killing and kidnapping IDF soldiers, as well as establishing a missile base in the Quneitra region on the border of Israel's Golan Heights.

Death

In 2015, days after Nasrallah declared that Israel's air strike in Syria meant that the Syrian Arab Republic and its allies had the right to respond, an Israeli helicopter blew up Mughniyah and five other Hezbollah commanders including Mohamad Issa in Quneitra Governorate. They were driving in a convoy in Quneitra Province alongside Revolutionary Guard Council (IRGC) troops near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and on 18 January 2015 the convoy was destroyed by the Israeli helicopter.^[9] Hezbollah retaliated on January 28 by firing anti-tank missiles at an IDF convoy on the Shebaa Farms, killing two IDF soldiers.

See also

• Mustafa Badreddine

References