Fauzi Ayub
Lebanese-Canadian member of Hezbollah / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fauzi Mohammed Ayub (Arabic: فوزي محمد أيوب), (also Fawzi), (5 October, 1966 – May 2014)[1] was a Lebanese-Canadian who was a member of Hezbollah and arrested in 2002 by the Israeli Defence Forces. Two years later he was released to his wife and three children in Lebanon in a prisoner exchange that saw 436 Palestinians and Lebanese released in exchange for Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers abducted four years earlier.[2][3]
His arrest brought debate to Canada over whether to declare Hezbollah a "terrorist" organisation, and whether to continue judging its military branch separately from its political and social service branches.[4]
He was killed in May 2014 while fighting in the Syrian Civil War by a Free Syrian Army ambush in the Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016).[5]