Clashes in the night in the center of Amsterdam at the end of the soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi, won by the home team 5-0. The police protected and escorted the Israeli supporters to their hotel, ten of them were injured. Over fifty arrests according to local authorities.

The Israeli PM's office confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu ordered two planes to be sent to Amsterdam this morning to help Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. "The Prime Minister has ordered the immediate dispatch of two rescue planes to help our citizens," read a statement from Netanyahu's office, which stressed that the Israeli PM takes "the atrocious incident with the utmost seriousness." In a phone call with Dutch Prime Minister Disk Schoof Bibi spoke of a "premeditated attack" on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. "Prime Minister Netanyahu," his office said, " has called for increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands."

The Dutch prime minister also condemned the violence, calling it “anti-Semitic attacks.” “I am following the news from Amsterdam with horror,” he wrote on X. “ Anti-Semitic attacks against Israelis are absolutely unacceptable. I am in close contact with all those involved .” “The perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted,” he told Netanyahu. “Now silence reigns in the capital.”

"A pogrom in the streets of Amsterdam. We have become the Gaza of Europe. Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting Jews, I will never accept that. The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect Israeli citizens." Dutch sovereignist leader Geert Wilders wrote in X: "It looks like a Jew-hunt in the streets. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum who attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets."

(Unioneonline/D)