Violence flared in Amsterdam late Thursday evening after the Europa League football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and home team Ajax, which won 5-0.
Five people have been hospitalised and 62 arrested as a result of clashes that erupted in Amsterdam overnight following a football match, police said on Friday.
"Several reports about last night's events in Amsterdam are circulating on social media," Amsterdam police said in a post on X.
"So far, it is known that five people have been taken to the hospital and 62 individuals have been arrested."
"The police have launched a major investigation into multiple violent incidents," it said.
On Friday, Tel Aviv sent a plane to collect their football fans from Amsterdam after clashes in the Dutch city.
It was not immediately clear when and where violence erupted after the match.
However, multiple fans at the stadium and eyewitnesses confirmed that the Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv went on a toxic racist tantrum in the lead up to clashes.
Videos posted to social media appear to show Maccabi Tel Aviv fans chanting racist slurs against Arabs and Palestinians, and climbing on a building to tear down a Palestinian flag on display.
"Let the Israeli army win to F**k the Arabs!" they chanted.
"There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left."
Social media users noted that the videos of the genocidal diatribe were captured before the clashes started.
Elsewhere, Israeli fans chanted "F**K Palestine."
Footage from the stadium, before the match started, show Maccabe Tel Aviv fans jeered and refused to observe a moment of Silence for the victims of the recent deadly floods in Valencia in an apparent jibe at the government in Madrid, which has been outspoken in condemning the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.
Dutch broadcaster NOS also reported that a Palestinian flag was ripped off a building in the centre of the city, and riot police blocked pro-Palestinian supporters trying to march toward the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium where the match was being played, according to AP.
Video footage also showed Israeli supporters pulling down Palestinian flags on residential buildings in the city, chanting racist, genocidal, anti-Palestinian slogans.
Other videos showed angry locals responding with anti-Israeli chants and chasing Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters off the streets.
Al Jazeera and Quds News Network posted timelines with videos of the clashes that occurred.
Ahram Online could not independently verify the videos or the timeline.
Other videos on social media showed riot police intervening in clashes and attacking pro-Palsetine demonstrators and locals who confronted the Israeli lynch mob.
Israelis looking for a fight
Various Dutch politicians rushed to describe the clashes as an "anti-semitic" attack on Jews.
Prime Minister Dick Schoof, whose government continues to supply Israel with spare parts for F-35 jetfighters that have been bombing the Gaza Strip and Lebanon despite lawsuits by rights organisations against such sales, said on X that he followed reports of the violence "with horror."
"Completely unacceptable antisemitic attacks on Israelis. I am in close contact with everyone involved," he claimed, saying that he had spoken to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and "emphasised that the perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted. It is now quiet in the capital."
Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema described "antisemitic hit-and-run squads."
Yet, such statements failed to address assaults by Israeli hooligans against Dutch citizens.
Meanwhile, many on social media argued that “the real crime is that the city hosted a football game with Israel.”
Posters appeared across the city before the match calling for its cancellation and demanding Israel’s expulsion from UEFA.
On Tuesday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Mossad agents would be securing the team in Amsterdam.
Conor, a fan who attended the match, told BBC Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters on the Amsterdam metro "went up and down the carriages three or four times looking for a fight."
"Everyone was going into the city, so everyone knew what was going to happen."
He added that he was "shocked by the portrayal" of the incident in the media, stressing the attacks were "completely provoked" and Palestinian flags were "torn down the night before."
Back in Israel, the Israeli National Security Council has warned soccer fans not to attend the upcoming Maccabe Tel Aviv matches in the European League in the Old Continent.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have been involved in racist incidents inside Israel, including taunting the team’s Arab-Palestinian players and applying pressure on the team to oust them.
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