YnetNews.com reports: “Monday’s intense series of strikes in Lebanon, which followed a string of eliminations of Hezbollah leaders in recent weeks, has led U.S. officials to believe that Israel dealt a significant blow to Hezbollah’s command. ‘They’ve probably been taken 20 years backward,’ a U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday.

In the past two months, two of Hezbollah’s most senior military figures, considered part of the terror group’s founding generation, have been eliminated. In a strike in Dahieh at the end of July, Fuad Shukr, dubbed ‘Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff’ was eliminated. Last week, Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah’s head of operations, was terminated alongside senior commanders of the group’s elite Radwan Force…”