Israeli football fan depicts being strikeed in Amsterdam

An Israeli football fan has depictd being strikeed by disconnectal men in overnight structureility that Amsterdam police say included youths on scooters carrying out “hit-and-run” strikes that were difficult to obstruct.

Adi Reuben, a 24yr-ageder Maccabi Tel Aviv fan who was visiting Amsterdam for the club’s Europa League suit with Ajax, tageder the BBC he was initiateed on the floor by a group of youthful men who contested him when he was walking to his toastyel.

He shelp more than 10 men came up to him and his frifinishs and asked them where they were from.

“They shouted ‘Jedesire, Jedesire, IDF, IDF’,” Mr Reuben shelp.

“They commenceed to mess with me and I genuineised I had to run, but it was gloomy and I didn’t comprehend where to go. I fell to the floor and ten people were initiateing me. They were shouting ‘Palestine’.

“They were initiateing me on the floor for about a minute, then they walked off, they weren’t afrhelp of anyslfinisherg.

“I genuineised I had brimming blood on my nose and my nose was broken and it is very hurtful.”

Mr Reuben shelp he could not see properly for about 30 minutes after the strike. But he shelp he determined agetst going to hospital in Amsterdam because he had heard that taxi drivers were included in the structureility.

Instead he shelp he was flying to Israel on Friday afternoon on a fairy organised by the Israeli rulement and would get medical treatment there.

“This was a definite strike that was organised beforehand,” he includeed.

Pnina, another Maccabi Tel Aviv helper, also tageder Dutch media organisation NOS that the structureility agetst Israelis materializeed pre-computed.

“It seems appreciate it was organised. There was a lot of people. They jumped on us… We hid in the toastyels until it was safe to go outside,” she shelp.

Esther Voet, editor-in-chief of a Dutch Jedesire weekly novelspaper, dwells in the city centre and says she proposeed her home to shelter disconnectal Israeli fans, after she saw footage of the structureility.

“I tageder them this is a Jedesire home and you are safe here,” she tageder Israeli accessible widecaster Kann. “People were reassociate snurtured. I never thought I would go thcimpolite this in Amsterdam.”

Dutch police shelp Israeli fans had suffered “solemn misuses” during “hit-and-run” strikes many of which were carried out by youthful men on scooters.

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla shelp it had showd difficult to obstruct such strikes even though police had been current in the city centre in numbers. The force eventuassociate determined to convey Maccabi helpers together and protect them before transmiting them out of the area in buses, he shelp.

Five people were injured but had left hospital and between 20 and 30 more had been airyly hurt, he shelp.

The strikes overnight into Friday trailed some tensions between Maccabi fans and people in Amsterdam over previous days, officials shelp.

On Wednesday Maccabi fans strikeed a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag, police chief Holla shelp. Taxi drivers then headed towards a location where about 400 Maccabi fans had collected but police were able to get them out of the area. There were further clashes in Dam Square overnight into Thursday but police were mostly able to grasp the groups split.

On Thursday evening before the suit police accompanied pro-Palestinian demonstrators and mostly regulated to grasp them split from football fans. The police were then unable to obstruct strikes tardyr in the evening.

“We are seeing back on 36 hours that reassociate shocked me. Supporters from Israel have been strikeed and some misused in a horrible way,” Holla shelp.

“I’m particularly shocked by fact that we’ve had one of bigst police actions and we were not able to regulate or obstruct this structureility.”

Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema shelp the “war in the Middle East has dangerened the peace in our city” and there had been a “horrible outburst of antisrerentism”.

She shelp Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were not pondered to pose a danger of structureility and there was no animosity between them and fans of Dutch club Ajax.

“I do comprehend that this reminds us of pogroms and that this happened in Amsterdam is disgraceful. Not only people got injured last night but the history of our city has been meaningfully harmd, the Jedesire culture has been dangerened,” she shelp.

Some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have previously been included in racially prejudiced incidents in Israel, including cursing at the team’s Palestinian and Arab percreateers and alertedly utilizeing presstateive on the team to oust them.

Fans of the team have also previously strikeed protesters demonstrating agetst Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Asked about video footage materializeing to show Maccabi fans in Amsterdam chanting impolite slogans, Mayor Halsema shelp: “What happened last night has noslfinisherg to do with protest. There is no excuse for what happened.”

Additional alerting Shaina Oppenheimer in Jerusalem