Mayor of Ofakim Tells Shocked Audience About Betrayal On Oct 7

English transcript follows.

Itzik Danino, Mayor of the city of Ofakim. Video originally posted on January 16. Time and place of speech are unknown to me.

English transcript:
Terrorists in Okafim. Squads of terrorists in Ofakim. Police...all the police of Ofakim are at the terrible nature party in Re'im. There is no army, no security forces. I make a call to the Foreign Minister, who is in the Security Cabinet, to Eli Cohen. Then he tells me, “I'm handling it in front of the National Security Council.”

I understand from this answer that this is not the solution that I'm looking for. This is not the response that we're looking for.

So then I make a call to the Security Minister, to Yoav Galant, also a little before 7 in the morning. Then I say to him...I'd already regained my composure, and I also understood what I was seeking from him. Then I say to him, “Minister, in these very moments there are squads of terrorists in the city of Ofakim, passing from house to house, and murdering my residents. If there won't be a helicopter here within a half hour, they will slaughter the city.”

Then you hear a wireless silence of twenty, thirty seconds, which seems like forever. You're waiting for an answer, and then he says to you, “I'm handling it.”

In those moments I feel that I succeeded to make a significant move to rescue my residents. This is a moment of lifting of the spirit during such a difficult and painful event.

I wait a half hour, and then I call him again, and I say to him, “Minister, I don't hear helicopters. I don't hear the rescue force.”

So he says to me, “I'm handling it.”

The first soldier who reached Ofakim was at 2 in the afternoon.