Accord­ing to the Egypt­ian news web­site Al-Mesryoon, Egypt­ian intel­li­gence ser­vice revealed a Syr­ian plan to invade — Tripoli — north Lebanon for the sup­port of the — Shi­ites — A’lawi minor­ity in Lebanon’s North­ern provinces.

Egypt sent the head of its intel­li­gence ser­vice to Beirut try­ing to counter the “Syr­ian inva­sion” by invit­ing Hizbollah’s lead­ers to Egypt.