Israel is set to transport soccer fans from Amsterdam following alleged antisemitic attacks.


Israel is sending commercial planes to the Netherlands to bring home Israeli soccer fans after overnight attacks in Amsterdam that officials described as antisemitic.

Videos on social media showed riot police intervening in clashes, with some attackers shouting anti-Israeli slurs.

 Some footage also showed Israeli supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans before the match. 

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were "attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks." 



At least five people were treated in hospital. Security measures were increased in the city, where hundreds gathered to remember Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews across Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938.

Antisemitic incidents have surged in the Netherlands since Israel launched its assault on Gaza after the attacks on Israel by the Palestinian Hamas group on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the order to send planes was taken after "a very violent incident" targeting Israeli citizens after the match between Maccabi and Ajax Amsterdam, traditionally identified as a Jewish club.

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