INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
early Monday.The night before, hundreds of people gathered outside the Makhachkala International Airport in the majority-Muslim republic of
Dagestan, throwing objects at police officers and running onto the tarmac in search of Israelis and Jews rumored to be on an arriving flight
from Tel Aviv.Nine police officers were injured during the clashes, two of whom have been hospitalized, according to the Interior
reported, citing two anonymous Interior Ministry sources in Dagestan.According to the two sources, police and other law enforcement agents
managed to clear the airport of rioters by 1:45 a.m
It had initially planned to close down the airport until Nov
that President Vladimir Putin would convene a meeting with top officials later in the day to discuss the events in Dagestan, which he
major broadcasters ran a small story on the event as of Monday morning.Regions across the North Caucasus, but especially Dagestan, have
witnessed a series of anti-Israeli demonstrations in the weeks since Israel launched a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response
to Hamas fighters' bloody attack inside Israel on Oct
