Panic at the airport of Makhatchakala, the capital of the Muslim-majority Russian republic of Dagestan: dozens of people stormed the runway and the terminal after the announcement of the landing of a plane from Israel.
A real manhunt broke out in the airport: the protesters broke down the barriers, broke down the doors inside the terminal and attempted to control the cars leaving the airport. Only the intervention of the special forces avoided the worst.
“Israel expects the Russian police authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli and Jewish citizens wherever they are and to act resolutely against demonstrators and against savage incitement directed against Jews and Israelis,” the ministry thundered. of the Israeli Foreign Office, specifying that «the Israeli ambassador to Russia Alex Ben Zvi is working with the Russian authorities to ensure the safety of Israelis and Jews there».
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke on the matter, speaking of "scary videos from Makhachkala" , underlining that what happened in Dagestan "is not an isolated incident, but rather is part of the widespread Russian culture of hatred towards other nations. Over the past year, the Russian Foreign Minister has made a series of anti-Semitic statements, and the Russian president has also made anti-Semitic insults,” Zelensky added.
The incident comes at a time of particular tension between Russia and the Jewish state over the war in Gaza. In recent days a Hamas delegation went to Moscow for talks and today the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov to protest, underlining among other things that it considers the lack of a clear condemnation to be "serious by Moscow of the terrorist organization Hamas and Russia's behavior in international bodies".
(Unioneonline/D)
