Jihad Mughniyah was the son of Imad Mughniyeh and a member of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist terrorist organisation.

Jihad was studying business at LAU, but dropped out the last semester before graduation to continue working for Hezbollah.

[10] Mughniyah proclaimed his allegiance to Hezbollah's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah a week after the assassination of his father, blaming Israel for the killing.

[11] Mughniyah was targeted in the bid to stop Hezbollah establishing a missile base in the Quneitra region on the border of Syria's Golan Heights.

[12] On 18 January 2015, Mughniyah and five other Hezbollah fighters, including chief of Hezbollah operations in Syria Mohamed Issa, and several Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops were killed by Israel in the Quneitra Governorate of Syria.