Moment hate mob demands passengers’ passports to prove they aren’t Jewish
This is the moment an anti-Semitic hate mob stormed a Russian airport and demanded to see the passports of passengers arriving from Israel.
Disorder broke out after Israeli passengers onboard flight WZ4728 from Tel Aviv touched down at Makhachkala airport in the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Sunday.
Video footage circulating on social media showed protestors, some carrying Palestinian flags, breaking through doors in the terminal, storming the runway and attempting to impose checks on cars leaving the airport for Israeli passengers.
Passengers were told to stay in their plane seats while riot police disbanded the angry mob, according to Israeli television network Channel 12.
Police have had to take control of the airport with 60 people arrested after the facility was breached, the interior ministry said.
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One witness said: “There were hundreds of people at the airport. About 50 men approached the airplane and asked passengers if they were Jews. I said no. I’m Russian. They wanted to see my passport. I had a Russian passport.”
Chants of “Allahu Akbar” could be heard while others shouted antisemitic slogans amid the civil disorder, according to Russian news agencies.
Video on social media showed some in the unruly crowd waving Palestinian flags, with one protester seen holding a sign reading “Child killers have no place in Dagestan”.
Footage also showed protesters attempting to topple a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who had arrived in Makhachkala, according to the AFP.
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Twenty people were wounded at the airport before security forces quelled the unrest, local authorities said.
Among the injured were police officers and civilians, they added.
The passengers on the plane, flight WZ4728, were safe, security forces told Reuters.
“As a result of the incident at Makhachkala airport there are injured (people), who are receiving medical help,” Dagestan’s health ministry said on Telegram.
The local Dagestani government said earlier that it was beefing up security measures across the republic in response to the unrest.
The Russian Aviation Authority has closed the airport for flights until it completes security checks.
In its statement, the interior ministry said the identity of 150 of what it called the most active protesters had been identified. It said the authorities were looking to track down everyone involved.
The chaotic scenes came as Israeli troops and armour pushed deeper into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, reaching built-up areas as the US and medical staff warned that airstrikes are hitting closer to hospitals, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter alongside thousands of wounded.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll among Palestinians passed 8,000, mostly women and minors, as Israeli tanks and infantry pursued what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “second stage” in the war ignited by Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion.
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