Setbacks for Hezbollahpublished at 10:28 British Summer Time
Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut
It has been a humiliating series of setbacks for Hezbollah, a group that wants to be seen as a powerful and sophisticated enemy by Israel.
First, on Tuesday, pagers used by its members exploded, in a shocking attack widely believed to have been carried out by Israel.
A day later, walkie-talkies.
Then, on Friday, an Israeli airstrike hit the group’s stronghold in Dahieh, in southern Beirut, killing senior members including the top military commanders of its elite Radwan unit.
In July, another Israeli airstrike - also in Dahieh - killed Fuad Shukr, a right-hand man to leader Hassan Nasrallah and the most high-profile figure to have been assassinated in the current conflict.