Arab media outlets relayed a report by the Israeli newspaper Maariv stating that Israel is preparing a plan to expand its military operations in Lebanon should Hezbollah engage in a confrontation linked to Iran. The report addressed a scenario of a multi-front regional war and mentioned plans to occupy cities in southern Lebanon and impose a naval blockade on the ports of Beirut and Tripoli.
The coverage focused on a single angle — the Maariv report — but differed in detail: some limited themselves to the headline of a plan to expand operations in Lebanon, while others went into the details of the multi-front regional scenario, the names of the cities and the naval blockade.