Hezbollah's military arm, the Islamic Resistance, claimed in a statement that its guerrillas had "destroyed a Zionist warship ... off Tyre."

Hezbollah had vowed revenge following the killing of 52 people, most of them women and children, in an Israeli air raid on the village of Qana on Sunday.

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