The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Monday claimed that it fired a missile
on one of Israeli warships off the coast of Lebanon, but Israeli army denied it.
Hezbollah's television channel al-Manar quoted a statement of Hezbollah as
saying that a missile fired by its militia hit an Israeli
warship and destroyed it off the coast of Tyre, a southern Lebanese port
city.
The statement also said that it was part of revenges for the killing of
children of Qana.
However, Israeli army dismissed the report flatly, saying that none of its
warships were hit.
Hezbollah had vowed to revenge following Israel's deadly air raid on southern
Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday, during which over 50 Lebanese civilians,
most of them children, lost their lives.
Hezbollah's rocket had hit an Israeli warship off Beirut on July 15, three
days after the eruption of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite
group following the abduction of two Israeli soldiers and the killing of eight
others in a cross-border raid by Hezbollah.