The Israeli military said on Friday it was preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of the Dutch government.
“The mission will be deployed using cargo aircraft and include medical and rescue teams,” the military said.
The only stories about this I’ve seen on Lemmy take a very pro-Israel perspective. Have the Israelis started doing to Lemmy what they’ve done to Reddit?
NBC’s coverage, as an alternative, says this immediately after it’s opening statement:
Videos circulating on social media showed violence in the city’s streets, with one video geolocated by NBC News to near Amsterdam’s central station appearing to show people chasing others and physically assaulting them. Separate video geolocated by NBC News showed Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. We will f*** the Arabs,” as well as tearing down a Palestinian flag.
…which clarifies that the attack was the people of Europe showing that unlike their governments, they do not tolerate genocidal apartheid supporters.
It’s all over Instagram; Israeli fans disrupted remembrance, shouted shit about Gazans and when they lost the football match - they started to riot.
Ban Apartheid Israel from Sports
Palestinian players and athletes are routinely attacked, imprisoned and killed. Athletes are denied freedom of movement to attend their own matches, competitions and trainings. Palestinian stadiums and sports infrastructures have been bombed and destroyed. Israel even prevents sports equipment from being imported and sports facilities from being developed.
Racism against Palestinians is institutionalized in Israeli sports – from segregated youth football leagues to anti-Palestinian hate from fan clubs that goes routinely unpunished.
In addition, Israeli football and basketball clubs based in illegal settlements are allowed to compete in official Israeli leagues, making international governing bodies FIFA and FIBA complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.
Despite all this, Western dominated sports bodies have looked the other way, refusing to take action. More than 300 Palestinian sports clubs and dozens of civil society organizations are calling to #BanIsrael from the Olympics. Join us as we seek to ban Israel from international sports forums, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA, until it ends its grave crimes against Palestinians and its attacks on Palestinian sports.
It would be interesting to know more detail on the attacks. I’ve seen other sources talking about groups of Haifa fans collecting to chant about killing arabs, pulling down locals’ Palestine flags and a video of them physically assaulting an Arab man outside Central Station.
They didn’t have return tickets of their own?
Why would you attack a civilian at a football game just because you hate their government?
Maybe because OPs title implies the fans weren’t cheering for the death of Gazan kids, tearing down Palestinian flags, and generally threatening Muslims?
Not to mention many of the fans “attacked” were reservists for the IDF - actual fucking war criminals are being allowed to attend international football matches because the Dutch govt is complicit in genocide.
Violence begets violence so let’s support the end of Israeli occupation
It’s football. Attacking civilians because they wave around the wrong flag, or just wearing the wrong color of t-shirt or scarf is reason enough for a beating.
