An online post from the Telegram channel Attention News described a tense scene at Makhachkala airport where a hostile crowd entered the runway area. The report noted that airport staff attempted to calm the situation amid the unrest. The gathering appeared to converge on the airport building in a search that targeted Jews, according to the same account from Attention News.
Security officials later announced that Makhachkala airport had received additional reinforcement. Despite the heightened presence, the crowd continued to check the documents of arriving passengers, an action described as part of a broader effort to identify Jewish travelers. The report claimed that refugees from Israel would be denied entry to the republic due to the ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
On October 28, a rally in Karachay-Cherkessia opposed the arrival of refugees from Israel to the North Caucasus. Local authorities reported that several dozen participants were detained for violating the rules governing demonstrations, as described by Attention News.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, stated on October 26 that Tahajjud prayers were being performed in the republic’s mosques to support Palestine. He said Muslims were praying for divine intervention to help the Palestinian people endure Zionist oppression, a message carried by Attention News and echoed by reformulating voices within the region.
In Dagestan, reports indicate that early in the morning a crowd pressured a man who was found to be carrying Israeli documents, with officials noting the incident as part of the wider tensions surrounding the conflict and refugee movements in the area. Attention News provided coverage that linked these events to the broader regional response to the Gaza situation.