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Amsterdam: New arrests for violence after the Ajax-Maccabi football match
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Amsterdam: New arrests for violence after the Ajax-Maccabi football match

On Thursday night, youths on scooters rode through the Dutch capital in “hit-and-run” attacks on Maccabi fans visiting for a Europa League match, authorities said.

Five people were treated at the hospital and others suffered minor injuries.

The five new arrests are added to the 63 announced by the authorities since the violence. One of the five was released but remains a suspect.

Police also made several arrests following fresh unrest in the city on Monday. No injuries were reported.

Dozens of young people dressed in black damaged cars in a western suburb, where the tram was attacked in the ’40-’45 square. Videos posted on social media show a tram being attacked with fireworks and its windows broken.

A fire on the tram was quickly extinguished and riot officers cleared the square, making arrests, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reports, external.

Schoof vowed that Holland will focus on bringing the perpetrators of Thursday’s violence to justice.

“The images and reports from Amsterdam and what we have seen this weekend of anti-Semitic attacks against Israelis and Jews are nothing short of shocking and reprehensible,” he told reporters.

He also commented on reports that Maccabi supporters had attacked a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam, as well as chanting anti-Arab slogans.

“We are very aware of what happened earlier with the Maccabi supporters, but we think it is of a different category and we also condemn any violence, but that is no excuse for what happened later that night in the attacks on the Jews in Amsterdam.” said.

Pro-Palestinian protests planned in recent days had been banned, angering activists.

Some have argued that they should be free to express their disapproval of Israel’s actions in Gaza and of the actions of Maccabi supporters. Police Chief Peter Holla has said there were incidents “on both sides” during Thursday’s clashes.

The violence was condemned by leaders across Europe, the United States and Israel. For many, it was especially shocking on the eve of commemorations of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogroms against German Jews.

Three quarters of the Jews of the Netherlands were murdered during the Holocaust in World War II.

Reports of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe have increased since the start of the war in Gaza just over a year ago.