Amsterdam: Israeli supporters attacked, Netanyahu sends two “rescue” planes

Clashes broke out overnight in the center of Amsterdam, after a Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Supporters of the Israeli club are chased to their hotel, as amateur images show at the top of the article.

“A large number of vehicles from the mobile unit are present and reinforcements have also been called. Young people also allegedly provoked the police,” according to local media AT5. Amsterdam police, cited by the ANP agency, indicate that they have made 57 arrests in total.

Tensions began before the match. Israeli supporters took down a Palestinian flag from a building, according to our correspondent in Israel.

According to the Time of Israel (new window)several Israeli fans were injured. Passports were also reported to have been stolen. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, denounced the violence: “This is the true face of the supporters of radical terrorism that we are fighting. The Western world must wake up now“.

A terrible incident

Benyamin Nétanyahou

Benjamin Netanyahu ordered two planes to be sent to Amsterdam early in the morning to “rescue“Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.”The Prime Minister ordered the immediate dispatch of two relief planes to help our citizens“, according to a press release from his services, specifying that Netanyahu considered “the appalling incident with the greatest seriousness“.

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Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof denounces “anti-Semitic attacks against Israelis“in Amsterdam, calling them “unacceptable“on his X account.”I am in close contact with everyone involved. Mr. Netanyahu insisted that the perpetrators of these acts must be sought and prosecuted“, he explains.

During a telephone conversation between the two men, the Israeli Prime Minister “dstated that he viewed the premeditated anti-Semitic attack against Israeli citizens with seriousness and called for increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands“, according to a press release from his office.