Hizbullah attacked an Israeli warship with an unmanned aircraft rigged with explosives or a missile and set it ablaze Friday night, Israeli military officials said.
The attack on the warship off Beirut's Mediterranean coast left four sailors missing.
The Israeli warship, which had been carrying several dozen sailors, was towed to Haifa after suffering heavy damage. The fire was put out after a few hours. The Israeli military confirmed news reports that four sailors were missing and said a search for them was underway.
In another maritime strike, Israel said that a Hizbullah rocket barrage missed its target and struck a civilian merchant ship.
Meanwhile, air strikes were confined to south Lebanon on Saturday, killing one civilian and injuring six in an attack targeting a gas station in the city of Sidon, medics and witnesses said. Ten people were also wounded in another raid on a village located 15 km to the south of the city of Tyre, security sources said.
