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Ghazi Ali Dawi

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Nationality
  
Lebanese

Children
  
1

Political party
  
Hezbollah

Religion
  
Shia Islam

Died
  
18 January 2015, Quneitra Governorate, Syria

Ghazi Ali Dawi (Arabic: غازي علي ضاوي) was a commander of Hezbollah Born in 1988 at Khiam Lebanon. He was killed in 2015 at Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Quneitra Governorate, Syria during the Syrian War by Israel.

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Biography

Ghazi Ali Dawi also known as Danyal or Daniel was a 26-year-old from Khiam town in the South Lebanon Governorate of Southern Lebanon. He was lower-level Hezbollah ground commander in charge of smaller units or geographic zones in the Golan Heights.

Assassination

In 2015, days after Hassan Nasrallah declared that Israel's air strike aggression in Syria meant that the Syrian Arab Republic and its allies had the right to respond, an Israeli helicopter blew up Ghazi Ali Dawi and five other Hezbollah commanders including Jihad Mughniyah and 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.

References

Ghazi Ali Dawi Wikipedia