Fauzi Ayub

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.

[7] In 1983, he formally joined Hezbollah, and three years later was part of a hijacking plot that targeted Iraqi Airways Flight 163 in Romania, hoping to exchange the airline hostages for Lebanese prisoners held by Iraq.

[6] After returning to Lebanon, Ayub and his wife opened a bakery and ran a construction supply outlet, but his businesses began to falter, and the family found themselves in increasing debt.

[7] Several months later, Ayub flew from Lebanon to Greece, and there obtained a forged American passport under the name Frank Bushy with which he sailed to Haifa, Israel in October 2000.

[9] While in the West Bank, he launched a failed attempt to free three prominent prisoners, Mustafa Dirani, Abdel Karim Obeid and Jihad Shuman, leaving twelve people dead.