Sixty are detained as a Russian mob searches an airport for Israelis.

Sixty individuals are believed to have stormed an airport in the Muslim-majority Caucasus republic of Dagestan with the intention of attacking Jewish passengers arriving from Israel, according to Russian police. They were apprehended today.

Several dozen demonstrators stormed the runway at Makhachkala airport on Sunday, breaking through doors and barriers while chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), according to AFP.

Two of the nine injured police officers who were attempting to restore order were hospitalised, according to the interior ministry.

The violence incited Israel to request that Russia safeguard its citizens, whereas the “anti-Semitic protests” were condemned by the United States.

According to the flight monitoring website Flightradar24, at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) on Sunday, a Red Wings flight departing from Tel Aviv made an arrival in Makhachkala.

According to the independent Russian news agency Sota, the aircraft in question was in transit and was scheduled to return to Moscow two hours later.

Under the assurance of Dagestan’s governor, Sergei Melikov, those responsible would be punished, and sixty individuals had been detained, according to a later statement from the interior ministry of the republic.

“Sixty of the more than 150 active participants in the unrest who have been identified have been arrested,” the ministry announced early Monday in a statement.

‘Child murderers’ are not desired.

“All operations at the airport have been resumed by security forces,” the statement continued.

The aviation agency of Russia initially predicted that the airport would be closed until November 6, but has since declared that it will reopen tomorrow.

Several local Telegram channels broadcast photographs and videos of dozens of men who were lining up to halt cars outside the airport.

A protester carrying a sign that read “Child killers have no place in Dagestan” was captured on video.

Additional videos captured a group of individuals attempting to breach entrances within an airport terminal while employees attempted to dissuade them.

Prominent individuals in Dagestan have expressed their solidarity with Palestine and disapproval of Israel ever since October 7, when Hamas militants stormed the Gaza border, allegedly abducting 239 others and indiscriminately murdering 1,400 people, the majority of whom were civilians, according to the most recent Israeli tallies.

In retaliation, Israel relentlessly bombed Gaza, killing over 8,000 people, with the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory reporting that half of those killed were minors.

“An increase in anti-Semitism” –

Sunday evening, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the following statement: “Israel expects the Russian government to safeguard all Israeli citizens and Jews, as well as to take decisive action against the rioters and incitement to violence against Israelis and Jews.”

National Security Council spokesperson for the White House Adrienne Watson stated, “The antisemitic demonstrations in Dagestan, Russia are vehemently condemned by the United States.

Watson stated on X, formerly Twitter, “The United States unequivocally stands with the entire Jewish community as we witness a global surge in antisemitism.”

Governor Melikov of Dagestan published the following message yesterday: “Every Dagestani sympathises with the plight of those harmed by the actions of vile individuals and politicians, and prays for peace in Palestine.

“However, the incident that transpired at our airport is abhorrent and warrants the requisite evaluation by law enforcement.” “This task will be completed.”

According to the Russian news agency Ria-Novosti, he also asserted this morning that the “initiators of this action are our enemies who orchestrated it from Ukrainian territory.”

Melikov stated that posts on the Utro Dagestan-based social media platform Telegram, which were managed by “traitors” operating from Ukraine, incited the rioting.

A post on the 60,000-follower Telegram channel Utro Dagestan had circulated, imploring a mass gathering at the airport in order to avert the Red Wings flight from carrying “undesirable” passengers.

The predominantly Muslim regions of Dagestan and Chechnya have been the site of years of violent conflict between the central Russian government and these areas.

Yesterday, the RIA Novosti news agency reported that a Jewish centre in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, another North Caucasus republic, had been set on fire.

Russia’s southernmost territory, Dagestan, is also among its impoverished regions.

It has actively participated in the offensive in Ukraine, sending proportionally more men there than numerous ethnically Russian regions, according to independent reports.