Israel to send planes to Amsterdam after violence against Israeli soccer fans

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******* to send planes to Amsterdam after ********* against ******** soccer fans

By Enas Alashray and Bart H. Meijer

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered two rescue planes be sent to the Netherlands on Friday after ********* targeting ******** football fans broke out in Amsterdam overnight.

Videos circulating on social media showed street clashes overnight and riot police intervening.

The order to send planes was taken after “a very violent incident” targeting ******** citizens following the game between Ajax Amsterdam, traditionally identified as a ******* club, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, his office said.

An eyewitness captured a video verified by Reuters showing a group of men running near Amsterdam central station, chasing and assaulting other men, as police sirens sounded.

Dutch Prime Minister ***** Schoof said he was “horrified by the anti-Semitic attacks on ******** citizens. This is completely unacceptable.”

In a phone call with Netanyahu he assured him “that the perpetrators will be identified and prosecuted,” he said in a statement on X.

Local police said 57 suspects had been detained after the game as pro-************ demonstrators tried to reach the Johan Cruyff stadium, even though the city had forbidden a protest there.

Police said fans had left the stadium without incident, but clashes erupted overnight in the city centre.

******** media and politicians reacted with shock to the *********, calling it some of the most serious seen since the start of the Gaza war more than a year ago.

The largest-selling newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted ******** fans who said the attacks appeared to be planned.

President Isaac Herzog was among senior ******** politicians who said the ********* recalled the ******* on ******* by ****** gunmen last year as well as the anti-Semitic attacks on ********* Jews in the pogroms of previous centuries.

“We see with horror this morning, the shocking images and videos that since October 7th, we had hoped never to see again: an anti-Semitic pogrom currently taking place against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and ******** citizens in the heart of Amsterdam,” he wrote in a message on the social media platform X.

The ******** military said it is preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of the Dutch government after the football game, in which Ajax defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 5-0.

“The mission will be deployed using cargo aircraft and include medical and rescue teams,” the IDF said.

Passions have been running high in the Middle East and abroad since the ************ militant group ****** attacked ******* on Oct. 7 2023, ******** 1,200 Israelis and taking more than 250 ********, according to *******.

At least 43,469 Palestinians have been ******* and 102,561 others injured in *******’s military offensive on Gaza in response to the ****** *******, according to health officials in the enclave.

The Gaza war has sparked protests in support of both sides across Europe and the ******* States and ****** and Jews have been attacked.

Anti-******* politician Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest party in the Dutch government, condemned the reported Amsterdam attacks in a post on X.

“Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable,” he said.

******** Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has asked the Dutch government to help ******** citizens arrive safely at the airport, Saar told his Dutch counterpart Caspar Veldkamp in a phone call on Friday.

(This story has been refiled to fix a typo in the headline)

(Reporting by Enas Alashray in Cairo, Ahmed Elimam in Dubai; additional reporting by Emily Rose in Jerusalem and Mahezabin Syed in Bangalore; Writing by Michael Georgy and Anthony Deutsch; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Lincoln Feast and Michael Perry)

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