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At least one Israeli sailor was killed and three were missing Saturday after Hezbollah struck a warship off Lebanon's coast in a dramatic show of the Shiite guerrilla group's military capabilities.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
Rescuers recovered one body off the coast of
The sailor was the ninth Israeli serviceman confirmed to have been killed since the flare-up of Israeli-Lebanese violence sparked by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers in a deadly Hezbollah raid on the border on Wednesday.
Friday's attack marked Hezbollah's first successful strike on an Israeli warship, dealing an unprecedented blow to the Israeli Army, by far the most powerful in the
The Israeli Army said Hezbollah militants had used an Iranian-built anti-ship missile in the attack. The radar-guided C-802 missile, developed by
The attack came shortly after
The targeted ship, which the Israeli army said was a
According to Israeli media, the warship was 16 km from the
Early Saturday the Israeli corvette remained at sea off the coast of
A foreign civilian vessel, believed to be Egyptian, was also hit and set on fire, its passengers and crew rescued by a third boat, according to an army spokeswoman, who gave no details of casualties on the ship.