What we know about Manchester striker Jihad Al -Shami

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There were little details on Friday about the life of the Shami jihad, who was anxious by the police while attacking a synagogue in Manchester on Kibor’s day, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The 35 -year -old, whose first name was “The Struggle”, came from the family of a Syrian immigrant who expressed his horror in his “heinous act” and talked about “their deep shock.”

Interior Minister Shabna Mahmoud Mahmoud said on Friday that he came to the United Kingdom as a “very young child” and was broken as a citizen in 2006.

He showed a picture posted on his father’s Facebook account, Faraj Al -Shami, jihad in October last year carrying a child, with a “great welcome grandson” comment.

The neighbors told the Press Association that they saw the jihad seat pressing in the garden of the humble council’s house in the Bristwich, on the northern side of Manchester.

The house is located two miles from the Hebrew Haytone Park synagogue, which was attacked by jihad on Thursday by driving his car in the building during the Kepor Day service.

The members of the group stabbed the attack, which left two dead people and wounded three people. The police shot the jihad at the scene, Along with one of the deceased victims And one of the injured survivors.

The neighbors said that he will wear at different times in traditional Syrian clothes and in others in the western dress.

His father’s Facebook page indicates that the family was in the UK for a long time. In a publication of July this year, Faraj narrated that he was in Manchester on the day of the bombing of June 1996 in the center of Manchester City.

In a statement posted on Friday at the Faraj account on Facebook, the family expressed its “deep shock and terror” as they called it “heinous”.

They wrote: “The Shami family in and abroad condemns the power of this heinous act, which targeted innocent calm civilians.

“We completely deviate ourselves from this attack and express our deep shock and grief over what happened. Our hearts and our thoughts with the victims and their families, and pray for their strength and comfort.”

Farraj, a worker in a number of conflicts all over the world, including in South Sudan, has been regularly posted on Facebook about the disturbances in the Middle East.

On October 7, 2023, he asked God to protect the “people” of Palestine, and he said that footage of Hamas fighters who attack an Israeli military camp “by simple means” showed that “Israel would not bear.”

“Regardless of those who lead them, they are the real compass: men who are confident in their victory, even if their resources are limited,” he said. This position seemed to contradict them with the Syrians, who said “divided” and “drowned at the bottom of the abyss.”

Like many Syrians, he welcomed the overthrow of former President Bashar al -Assad last year by the rebels led by the Islamic movement, Haya, Tora Al -Sham, after more than a decade of the civil war.

Faraj also published content showing sympathy for the Christian minority in Syria after attacks in the wake of the revolution against the Assad regime, and criticized sectarianism.