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.

Source: Xinhua