An aeroplane was targeted at an airport in Dagestan by an anti-Semitic mob who demanded to see passengers’ passports.
Israeli passengers onboard flight WZ4728 from Tel Aviv were caught in chaos at Makhachkala airport in the Russian Republic after people stormed the airstrip.
According to videos posted online, the protesters, some bearing Palestinian flags, broke through doors in the airport, with some running onto the runway while others broke barriers, seeking to check the cars exiting the airport for Israeli passengers.
According to Israeli television network Channel 12, passengers were told to remain in their seats before riot police were summoned in to help them off the aircraft.
One eyewitness said that there were hundreds of people at the airport.
Approximately 50 men approached the aircraft and asked passengers if they were Jews. One witness said no. He was Russian. However, they wanted to see his passport. He had a Russian passport.
According to Russian news agencies, numerous people in the gathering that stormed the Makhachkala airport were reportedly chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while others were yelling anti-Semitic slogans.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd waving Palestinian flags, with one protester seen carrying a sign reading ‘Child killers have no place in Dagestan’.
According to the AFP, footage also showed protesters trying to overturn a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who’d arrived in Makhachkala.
The majority of Dagestan citizens are Muslim and the area is reportedly considered an important centre of Islam in the Caucasus and former Soviet Union.
Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.
Dagestan’s health ministry said on Telegram that as a result of the incident at Makhachkala airport, there were injured people, who were receiving medical help.
Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsia reportedly closed the airport and said that all unauthorised citizens had been removed as of 10:20 pm local time (7:20 pm GMT).
According to PA, there were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
Rosaviatsia added that the airport would tentatively remain closed to incoming aircraft until November 6.
In a statement released on Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.
The psyche and brutality of these fanatics are beyond belief and there are so many ignorant and uneducated people that are taking part in these events. They need to start familiarising themselves with real history, not just what they’re told.
Israel and Palestinians are as bad as each other because what they don’t seem to be able to get their heads around is that violence will NEVER end violence.
It’s angels and demons in the minds of simpletons and there are so many wrongs on both sides of the corridor, and it’s genuinely terrifying that this attitude still exists, and it’s going to get a lot worse.
The problem is that some people remain locked in a defunct age of feudalism and barbarity and just don’t seem to be able to evolve into anything better.
This isn’t about religion, it’s about land and manipulation for greed and need, and this is simply tribalism that’s infused into human nature.
Governments said that this would never happen again after World War II but it’s happening because the small things didn’t get stomped out, so now the big things are happening.
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