Ghaleb Awwali was a senior Hezbollah official who was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

, Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 on July 19, 2004. Hezbollah blamed Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 for the attack. However, credit was claimed by a previously unheard of Sunni group called Jund Ash Sham

Jund Ash Sham

Jund Ash Sham aka Jund al-Sham is an anti-Fatah Sunni Muslim group formed in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in 2004 and is considered a splinter group of Osbat al-Nour...

. Ghaleb Awwali has been called a martyr

Martyr

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 of Lebanon and a martyr of Palestine

Palestine

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. Hezbollah officials have claimed that the Zionist movement is behind the attacks and have claimed that Jund Ash Sham is linked to Israel, but have offered no evidence. Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed to "cut the hand" of the Jewish state following the death of Ghaleb.