Local security coordinators and members of civilian security chapters participated in a government meeting, accusing the State of ignoring their pleas for help over the course of many years.
Itai Hoffman, chairman of the the local security coordinators' organization, said angrily: "There is no difference between a military security chapter or a police [security chapter]. We need to make sense of this issue. It needs to be that security coordinators operate under a security body. Civilians do not need to busy themselves with defense. There needs to be an organized body that the State brings together, thus taking responsibility for citizens' security. You have abandoned us. We warned you about the situation."
"How can it be that you all sat here and kept silent? It is unthinkable that clerks should tell me that we don't need security chapters."
Nir Alon, a member of Kibbutz Sufa's security chapter, said, "I came to speak in the name of Ido Hubara, of blessed memory, from my kibbutz. In Sufa's security chapter there were six long M16 rifles, of which two were broken. I had no weapon. Four weapons, which the security chapter used to fight bravely. In addition, the one who evacuated Ido Hubara was his father, the ambulance driver. That is how he found out that his son was killed. We have been screaming for years about the security chapters. I don't know who is responsible for this failure - but the murder of 1,400 people is on his hands."
With his voice breaking, he described the events of October 7, the day of the Hamas massacre: "We were in the safe room - my wife, myself, my two children ages three and six, my wife's parents, and my mother. I don't wish on anyone the feeling of helplessness, of being in the bomb shelter and helping my mother with her needs, and seeing my daughter's eyes filled with fear, while I cannot do anything and all I have in my hand is a knife."
Slamming the MKs, Alon said, "You sit here all day, driving people nuts. Your minister is who we call, in our Council, 'The Missing Minister.' No one came to speak to us. You are Knesset members, go down to the evacuees, because they deserve it. For years, you have been neglecting them. Ido Hubara could have still been alive if he had a normal helmet and not one from 1978. Stop talking and start doing."