The Israeli occupation army announced, on Wednesday, that it had attacked "280 targets" that it said belonged to "Hezbollah" in Lebanon since the beginning of the day.

"During the day, warplanes attacked about 280 Hezbollah targets on Lebanese soil," the army said in a statement.

He claimed that among the targets were "the platforms from which the (rocket) launches were carried out towards Safed, Nahariya and the Jordan Valley (northern Israel) this morning."

He continued: "The raids also targeted militants, weapons depots, launch pads, and military infrastructure in Nabatieh and other areas in southern Lebanon."

He pointed out that "it continues to launch more raids."

There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the army's claim as of 14:20 GMT.

Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at targets in northern Israel, causing sirens to sound in dozens of settlements.

There are increasing indications that Israel is preparing to launch a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, under the pretext of establishing a "security buffer zone."

On Wednesday, the army announced a decision to call up two reserve brigades to the border with Lebanon, shortly after Northern Command Commander Oren Gordin announced a “strong state of readiness to enter into a ground exercise.”

Since Monday morning, the Israeli army has launched the "most violent and extensive" attack on Lebanon since the 2006 war against Hezbollah; leaving 583 dead, including children and women, 1,930 wounded, and 390,000 displaced, according to Lebanese authorities.

In return, Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets at military sites and settlements, and a ballistic missile at the headquarters of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency in Tel Aviv (center), for the first time since October 8.

In order to maintain the morale of the Israelis and to practice psychological warfare against the Lebanese, Israel, according to numerous international reports, imposes strict military censorship on its media regarding human and material losses resulting from Hezbollah strikes, which primarily target military targets.

This censorship is due to the fact that what is happening on the Lebanese front is unprecedented since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, as it strikes at the security doctrine entrenched in Israeli society, which is based on “transferring the battle to enemy territory,” while the strikes have reached most parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv.

For decades, Israel has occupied Arab lands in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.