Key Points
Israel-Gaza War: An unusual development took place in Russias Dagestan airport when throes of protestors stormed the premises, ostensibly demonstrating against the arrival of a flight from Israel amid the war in Gaza..
According to reports the crowd broke past security, with some making it onto the runway of Makhachkala airport, before they were removed by security forces..
-Hundreds of angry men rushed onto the tarmac of the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, late on Sunday, looking for Israeli passengers, according to Russian news reports..
-The Kremlin blamed the unrest on outside interference," and Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting will discuss attempts by the West to use the events in the Middle East to divide the (Russian) society." ..
-Further, Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti cited Dagestan Governor Sergei Melikov as saying that the unrest was coordinated in a Telegram channel run by traitors" based in Ukraine, with the goal of destabilizing the situation in Dagestan and fueling unrest..
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