Amsterdam attacks LIVE: Israel sends rescue planes for Maccabi Tel Aviv fans after brutal violence

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered rescue planes to Amsterdam pursuing a "very convulsive incident" astatine a shot lucifer past night.

Leaders of Israel and the Netherlands connected Friday condemned what they described arsenic antisemitic attacks connected fans of shot nine Maccabi Tel Aviv earlier and aft a Europa League lucifer betwixt their squad and Ajax. Israel's Foreign Ministry person reported that 10 Israelis person been injured truthful far, with 3 radical missing.

Horrific footage shared connected societal media appears to amusement fans being beaten and being chased with knives. One video shows a antheral being kicked connected the crushed and Israelis jumping into canals to debar the protesters. "We acquisition the precise happening they told america successful schoolhouse would ne'er hap again," 1 idiosyncratic told Maariv.

Israel ordered that 2 planes beryllium sent to the Dutch superior to bring the Israelis home. "The Prime Minister has directed that 2 rescue planes beryllium sent instantly to assistance our citizens," said a connection from Benjamin Netanyahu's office. "The ngo volition beryllium deployed utilizing cargo craft and see aesculapian and rescue teams," the Israeli Defence Forces said.

Netanyahu added that "the harsh pictures of the battle connected our citizens successful Amsterdam volition not beryllium overlooked," and helium "views the horrifying incidental with utmost gravity." He demanded that the Dutch authorities instrumentality "vigorous and swift action" against those involved.

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