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Israeli football fans attacked in Amsterdam, officials say

Femke Halsema, the mayor of Amsterdam, says perpetrators "actively sought out" Israeli supporters. Credit: EPA

Five people have been taken to hospital and 62 people have been arrested after Israeli football fans attending a match in Amsterdam faced a series of attacks on Thursday night, Dutch officials say. Amsterdam's mayor and authorities said that despite a massive police presence, fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club were assaulted after their club's fixture against Ajax Amsterdam. Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, called the violence an "antisemitic pogrom". Several videos circulating on social mediaappear to show the violence, including a man being kicked and beaten on the ground and someone being run over. Other videos, reportedly filmed before the attacks, appear to show Maccabi fans chanting racist slogans about Arabs and Palestine, as well as climbing on a building to tear down a Palestinian flag. The BBC is working to verify the videos. "What is not clear at this point is the sequence of events," writes our correspondent Joe Inwood. "What is certain is that last night's violence was about much more than just football."

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• Follow live: Our BBC Verify team is working to check social media footage from Thursday night, while authorities are expected to give a press conference late on Friday morning. All the updates will be on our live page.  

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• Watch: Here's some footage, verified by Reuters, of the violence following the Ajax v Maccabi Tel Aviv game.  

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• Political reaction: Dutch PM Dick Schoof described the "antisemitic attacks" on Israelis as "completely unacceptable", while Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu called for increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands. 

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