The Home Front Command announced at 03:09 that a security incident has ended in Metula and Ghajar, allowing residents to leave protected spaces. The all-clear follows a series of similar civil-defense updates across the northern border this week.
The Home Front Command issued an all-clear bulletin at 03:09 local time for two northern border communities: Metula and Ghajar, permitting residents in both locations to leave protected spaces. This latest shelter-lift comes roughly four hours after the previous sequence of alerts and all-clears in Metula on the same night — a thread that began just after 23:33 with warnings of launches from Lebanon, included reports of interceptions and explosions, and saw a first all-clear at 23:44 (version 12). That cycle had itself followed a similar all-clear issued at 08:45 on the same day for Metula and Misgav Am, as The Zioneer reported. The inclusion of Ghajar — a village straddling the Lebanon border — marks the first time this location appears in tonight’s series of alerts.
Across the thread, corroboration evolved sharply: the earliest versions (versions 4–6, 23:33–23:33) relied on monitoring-system detection of launches from Lebanon, with no official confirmation of interceptions. By versions 9–10 (23:33), Lebanese sources claimed six rockets were fired and N12 reported aerial interceptions, a shift from detection to attributed engagement. Version 11 introduced local resident reports of explosions, still unconfirmed by the IDF. Version 12 (23:44) finally carried an official Home Front Command all-clear, moving the thread from unverified initial alerts to an on-record civil-defense declaration. The present March 04:03 update extends that official declaration to include Ghajar, but again without specifying the nature of the threat or whether any interceptions or casualties occurred.
As The Zioneer reported earlier in the week, this pattern of brief shelter orders and all-clears in the Upper Galilee and Golan has been repeated multiple times since at least June 8, with the Home Front Command lifting restrictions for Metula on June 8, June 9, and earlier today (June 13 at 08:45). Each event has been attributed to launches from Lebanon, but the command has consistently declined to detail the specific threat in each case. The broader civil-defense posture on the northern border remains unchanged: routine 'green' status for most of the country, with frontline communities under heightened alert.
What remains open: the Home Front Command has not explained what prompted the brief shelter order that ended at 03:09 — whether it was a false alarm, a malfunction, or an actual launch that was intercepted or fell in an open area. No resident reports of explosions, sirens, or interceptions have been tied to this particular 03:09 bulletin. The lack of any visible alert or interception preceding the all-clear leaves the event's cause unverified.
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