Violence broke out on the sidelines of a football match on Thursday evening in the Dutch city.
“I was informed by the mayor of Amsterdam about the formation of a special investigation team, but I can say that so far the number of arrests is very low,” said the new Israeli minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Saar, during a press conference.
Israel offered its assistance in the investigation into the violence, he said.
Dutch police reported around sixty arrests after the violence which occurred Thursday evening on the sidelines of the football match between Ajax Amsterdam and the Israeli club Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
Between 20 and 30 Maccabi supporters were injured after being attacked by groups of individuals who, according to Dutch police, had responded to a call to target Jews, launched on social networks.
“Explosion of anti-Semitism”
These clashes occurred in a context of increasing anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli acts since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas a little over a year ago in the Gaza Strip.
“It’s an explosion of anti-Semitism that I hope to never see again,” declared the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, who said she was “ashamed” of this violence.
On Saturday, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp assured that a “thorough investigation will be carried out in the Netherlands”.
The match took place on Thursday in a generally calm atmosphere, even if some Israeli supporters did not respect the minute of silence in memory of the victims of the floods in Spain, a country which recently recognized the State of Palestine.
In a video posted on social networks, the origin of which could not be verified, what appeared to be fans of the Maccabi club sang songs in Hebrew hostile to the Palestinians.
