Ghaleb Awwali was a senior

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and later Lebanese Islamic Jihad official who was assassinated in a car bombing in

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, Lebanon in a

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controlled area, on 19 July 2004. Hezbollah blamed

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and the Jund Ash Sham organization but offered no evidence, while others blamed Hezbollah itself, as Awwali had been active independently, and had been involved with

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Palestinian militant organizations. Awwali has been called a martyr of Lebanon and a martyr of

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, the chief of Hezbollah, vowed to "cut the hand" of Israel, which he said was behind the killing of Awwali. Consequently, violent clashes erupted the next day on 20 July in response to Awwali's assassination between the

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and Hezbollah, killing two Israeli soldiers and one Hezbollah militant.

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