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Telegram blocks channel blamed for inspiring anti-Israel riot at Russian airport
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Telegram has blocked a channel popular in Russia’s Muslim-majority Dagestan republic after government officials blamed it for inspiring a violent mob that breached the area’s main airport looking for passengers on a flight from Israel.
On Sunday, hundreds of protesters broke into Makhachkala Uytash airport in Dagestan, a republic in southern Russia near the Caspian Sea, and onto a runway to meet a flight arriving from Tel Aviv.
Many shouted “Allahu akbar,” a common Muslim refrain meaning “God is great,” and waved Palestinian flags, according to videos verified by NBC News.
The riot is one of the latest instances of international unrest inspired by the deepening war between Israel and Hamas, the group that runs Gaza’s government and is also officially recognized by many Western countries as a terrorist organization.
When NBC News tried to view it, it received an error message saying, “Sorry, this channel is not accessible.” The company forbids calls to violence on its platform but only sporadically removes posts, even from terrorist groups like the Islamic State, better known as ISIS.
Durov initially defended keeping the channels available, noting that they served both as valuable primary sources and to warn Palestinians of Israeli strikes.
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