The IDF Home Front Command says it will be extending the warning times for rocket fire from Lebanon on communities in the Galilee.
The move means that there will be slightly more time to seek shelter in 49 communities where currently only 30 seconds are given.
The Home Front Command, along with other military bodies, analyzed Hezbollah’s rocket fire and the IDF’s detection systems, and determined that 49 communities in the upper, lower, and central Galilee can get slightly longer warning times.
They include 46 communities moving from 30 seconds to 45 seconds, and three communities moving to a full minute.
The move will take effect starting tomorrow at 4 p.m., according to the Home Front Command.
Similar moves were carried out by the Home Front Command in recent months in communities along the Lebanon border, in the Golan Heights, in the Sea of Galilee area, as well as in the southernmost city of Eilat.
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