Amsterdam attacks: Dutch government apologises to Israel
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Dutch government says sorry to Israel after visiting Israeli football fans are attacked in Amsterdam in what the city's mayor describes as an explosion of antisemitism.
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(Image: A woman wrapped in an Israel flag following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team in Amsterdam. Credit: REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.3 | Coming to you live from our studios in central London, I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:12.7 | And we begin today in Amsterdam, the scene last night of violent attacks on supporters of the Israeli team, Makabi Tel Aviv, |
| 0:20.1 | after their match against Ajax, Amsterdam and the city. |
| 0:23.8 | Young men, clad in black, roamed the streets on foot and on scooters, attacking Israeli supporters. |
| 0:30.4 | Five of them were hospitalized and more than 60 people, so far unidentified, have been arrested. |
| 0:36.6 | These people on the streets of Amsterdam spoke of their shock, |
| 0:40.0 | with some suggesting holding the match was a bad idea, |
| 0:43.1 | others that the attacks were premeditated. |
| 0:46.0 | There's a lot of people that are not IAC supporter, they are not related to this. |
| 0:51.4 | They were ready in exactly in the places, strategic places, with bat, with |
| 0:57.4 | knives and everything. |
| 0:58.8 | So it was well organized and it's people from certain age. |
| 1:02.8 | So it's not spontaneous that suddenly, you know, you see a flag and you're getting excited about it. |
| 1:07.6 | I think it has been a mistake to invite a football club that is part of a |
| 1:11.2 | country that is actively engaging in war crimes at the moment. And then they say, yeah, football |
| 1:16.7 | should not be political. Well, I'm the chief of staff, Peter Hollis, said the Israeli supporters |
| 1:22.2 | had also attacked a taxi and set fire to a Palestinian flag. Iran Zahavi as a player for Makabi Tel Aviv. |
| 1:30.0 | After returning to Israel, he described the incident to journalists as horrifying |
| 1:34.2 | and said the club would help returning fans. |
| 1:40.9 | We all saw what happened. |
| 1:43.0 | It was a disgrace. |
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