At about 8:30 Friday night, Hizbullah attackers fired an Iranian-supplied C-802 anti-ship missile at the Israeli vessel, which was stationed 16 kilometers (10 miles) off the Lebanese coast. The missile strike resulted in a fire on board and three soldiers were believed to have fallen or been blown overboard.
The body of Staff-Sergeant Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod, was found under the rubble as the damaged vessel was making its way back to the port of Ashdod. On Sunday, the three others who were originally listed as missing-in-action were found: Sgt. Yoni Hirschkovitz, 21, from Haifa; Cpt. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon LeTzion, and First St.-Sgt. Dov Shternshos, 37, from Carmiel.
Navy Brig.-Gen. Noam Feig said, "We detect, unambiguously, Iranian intervention in the providing of this missile. It is a missile that many countries don't have - yet a terrorist organization was able to obtain it."
Security sources said that the attack on the naval vessel came as a surprise, as the IDF was unaware that Hizbullah was armed with the Chinese C-802 missile. For this reason, the ship's protective systems did not react to the missile.
At the time of the attack, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah declared that his organization is preparing more "surprises." Within hours, he himself was reported wounded - a claim Hizbullah sources later denied - and unable to extricate himself from the shelter beneath the ruins of his bombed 11-story apartment building in Beirut.
The body of Staff-Sergeant Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod, was found under the rubble as the damaged vessel was making its way back to the port of Ashdod. On Sunday, the three others who were originally listed as missing-in-action were found: Sgt. Yoni Hirschkovitz, 21, from Haifa; Cpt. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon LeTzion, and First St.-Sgt. Dov Shternshos, 37, from Carmiel.
Navy Brig.-Gen. Noam Feig said, "We detect, unambiguously, Iranian intervention in the providing of this missile. It is a missile that many countries don't have - yet a terrorist organization was able to obtain it."
Security sources said that the attack on the naval vessel came as a surprise, as the IDF was unaware that Hizbullah was armed with the Chinese C-802 missile. For this reason, the ship's protective systems did not react to the missile.
At the time of the attack, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah declared that his organization is preparing more "surprises." Within hours, he himself was reported wounded - a claim Hizbullah sources later denied - and unable to extricate himself from the shelter beneath the ruins of his bombed 11-story apartment building in Beirut.