[AP/Washington Post] Ramit Plushnick-Masti - Hizballah, helped by Iranian troops, struck an Israeli naval vessel 16 km off the coast of Lebanon Friday using a radar-guided, Iranian-made C-802 missile, Israeli officials said Saturday. Four Israeli sailors were killed. About 100 fighters from Iran's Revolutionary Guard helped import, equip, and fire the missile at the Israeli ship, Israeli officials said. An Israeli military official said the ship's missile detection and deflection system was not on because such an attack had not been anticipated. Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan said another Hizballah missile hit and sank a nearby Cambodian merchant ship around the same time.
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