On Thursday, Hezbollah terrorist Fadel Abbas Bazzi’s coffin was hauled through the streets of Beirut’s southern suburb of Ghobeiry. He was  killed in the attack that caused pagers and walkie-talkies used by the Iran-backed paramilitary group to explode.

On Sunday, his family and friends in Dearborn will gather at the Islamic Institute of Knowledge to pay their respects for the man they consider a “martyr.”

“A Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan has released a Flyer for a Memorial Service being held Sunday for Fadl Abbas Bazzi, one of the Hezbollah Terrorists that was Eliminated today in Lebanon, with it appearing that some of Bazzi’s Family live in or around Dearborn,” OSINTdefender posted to X.

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OSINTdefender describes itself as an “Open Source Intelligence Monitor focused on Europe and Conflicts across the World.” News reports from The Jerusalem Post, The Times, and Al Jazeera confirm Bazzi’s affiliation with Hezbollah, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government since 1997.

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“Why is an International Terrorist Organization which has caused the Death of Hundreds of U.S. Servicemembers, able to holding a Memorial Service within the United States?” OSINTdefender questioned.

A post to Dearborn.org on Wednesday: “The city of Bint Jbeil mourns to its steadfast and proud people, Fadel Abbas Bazzi, as a result of his injury in the explosion of a wireless device today.”

At least 37 are dead and thousands injured after pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded in southern Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday in an attack Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah described as an “unprecedented blow” to his organization, The Washington Post reports.

Israel Defense Forces have since ramped up air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon that continued on Friday, while Iran has vowed to respond to the pager explosions that injured an Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, according to the news site.

The explosions are the latest development in the ongoing war that began last October, when Hamas attacked Israel, killing thousands and taking hundreds, including Americans, hostage in what’s described as the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

The conflict has resulted in protests from pro-Hamas activists at college campuses across the U.S., including several in Michigan. It’s also played into the 2024 presidential election, with some 700,000 Democratic voters threatening to withhold their vote for Vice President Kamala Harris unless she calls for a permanent ceasefire and halts all military aid to Israel.

That hasn’t happened.

In Michigan, the nearly year-long conflict has also drawn protests from radical pro-Hamas activists in Dearborn that went viral this spring for featuring chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

Tarek Bazzi, of Dearborn Heights, was at the podium during a protest in April when those chants came from the crowd, the Detroit Free Press reports.

It’s unclear whether Tarek Bazzi and Fadel Abbas Bazzi are related.

Tarek Bazzi, an activist and teacher, quoted Malcom X to a crowd in April: “We live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth.”

“We have been asked in the past: Why are our protests on the International Day of Quds, why are they so anti-America? Why don’t we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America? Why don’t we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America? Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America. Because it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all the atrocities.”

He continued, according to the Free Press: “This is not some Iranian propaganda because this is a position that has been recognized by people right here in the United States as well. The Black Panthers used to say that the United States is the backbone of all oppression in the world.”

At that point, those in attendance were heard chanting “Death to America” in Arabic.

Local Muslim community leaders vehemently condemned the chants, and Tarek Bazzi condemned their reaction.