Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday requested his counterpart within the Netherlands to supply extra safety for Israelis after followers of the Maccabi Tel Aviv FC soccer group have been attacked on Thursday by anti-Israel protesters.
Israeli air provider El Al is sending planes to Amsterdam on Shabbat to evacuate Israelis, after the Israeli Protection Forces stated it was standing down on a plan to “instantly deploy a rescue mission” to the town.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry stated that as much as 20 of its nationals have been injured whereas seven others stay unreachable for the reason that assaults.
“The police have launched a serious investigation into a number of violent incidents. Thus far, it’s identified that 5 individuals have been taken to the hospital and 62 people have been arrested,” Amsterdam Police stated in a press release.
ISRAELI SOCCER FANS TARGETED IN WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN AMSTERDAM
Israeli soccer supporters and Dutch youth conflict close to Amsterdam Central station, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on this nonetheless picture obtained from a social media video. (X/iAnnet/through REUTERS)
Talking with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof after the violence, Netanyahu said he takes the “premeditated assaults” critically. He urged Schoof to bolster safety for Israelis within the nation.
Israel has additionally added extra cellphone traces on the embassy and within the International Ministry’s state of affairs room.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog known as Thursday’s assaults probably the most alarming factor to occur to Jews for the reason that Oct. 7, 2023 assaults by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.
Anti-Israel agitators display at Amsterdam’s Anton de Komplein sq. forward of the UEFA Europa League soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Nov. 7. (Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP through Getty Photos)
“We awakened this morning to stunning photographs and movies that since October seventh, we had hoped by no means to see once more: an antisemitic pogrom at present going down towards Maccabi Tel Aviv followers and Israeli residents within the coronary heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands,” Herzog wrote on X.
“This can be a severe incident, a warning signal for any nation that needs to uphold the values of freedom.”
There are experiences that some followers have been chanting anti-Arab slogans earlier than the sport. In a single social media video that Reuters says it has verified, the touring Maccabi followers have been seen setting off flares and chanting “Ole, ole, let the IDF win, we’ll f–k the Arabs,” in an obvious reference to the Israel Protection Forces.
The Palestinian Ministry of International Affairs says it “strongly condemns the anti-Arab slogans and hostile actions carried out by supporters of an Israeli soccer membership in Amsterdam.
“These acts included the desecration and elimination of the Palestinian flag from symbolic websites that signify solidarity with Palestinian rights and resistance towards the continued occupation and systematic violence in Gaza,” it added.
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Followers of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration on the Dam Sq., lighting up flares and chanting slogans forward of the UEFA Europa League match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 07, 2024. (Mouneb Taim/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
The Dutch prime minister on Friday known as the “antisemitic” attacks on Israeli soccer fans “unacceptable” and stated the “perpetrators shall be tracked down and prosecuted.”
Movies on social media confirmed a number of fights occurring within the streets outdoors the stadium the place Maccabi Tel Aviv FC was taking part in Ajax. Days earlier, Spanish media reported that anti-Israel agitators would protest outdoors the stadium to focus on Israel’s soccer membership and its followers.
ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS HANDED LEGAL SETBACK IN EFFORT TO EXPAND DNC RALLY
Supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv maintain flags at Dam sq. forward of the Europa League soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. (Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP through Getty Photos)
“We now have turn out to be the Gaza of Europe,” populist Dutch political chief Geert Wilders of the anti-Muslim immigration Freedom Social gathering within the Netherlands stated following the assaults.
“Muslims with Palestinian flags searching down Jews. I’ll NOT settle for that. NEVER,” he wrote on X. “The authorities shall be held accountable for his or her failure to guard the Israeli residents. By no means once more.”
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The IDF has barred troopers from flying to Amsterdam, however “distinctive requests shall be examined individually,” the army acknowledged.
Fox Information’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
