(8 Nov 2024)
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Ben Gurion Airport, Israel - 8 November 2024
1. Police officers on quad bikes
2. Maccabi Tel Aviv captain Eran Zahavi arriving
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Eran Zahavi, Maccabi Tel Aviv captain:
“We all saw what happened, shameful. This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. Our fans were very intimidated when they went through the worst there. Unfortunately, they came to see soccer and that's what happened."
4. Zahavi leaving airport
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Itsik Weksler, Maccabi fan:
“I wake up my son, this is a Bar mitzvah tour for us. This is a gift for him. I waked him up and we put Brazilian flag on our bag, because they do not understand we are Israeli and we took (an) Uber to the other side of the hotel and we go to the airport.”
6. Fan hugging his mother, UPSOUND (Hebrew) “Shabbat Shalom, the people of Israel live."
7. Wide of arrivals hall
STORYLINE:
The captain of soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv called attacks on the team's fans in Amsterdam "shameful" as he arrived back in Israel on Friday.
"This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. Our fans were very intimidated when they went through the worst there. Unfortunately, they came to see soccer and that's what happened," added soccer captain Eran Zahavi.
Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday. Five people were treated for injuries at hospitals and dozens were arrested.
One fan spoke of waking his son and putting a Brazilian flag on their backpack before making their way to the airport to fly home to Israel.
Tensions had been mounting in the Dutch capital over Israel’s campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, even before Thursday night's Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Amsterdam authorities banned a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration near the stadium, and video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans en route to the game.
Afterwards, youths on scooters and on foot crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli fans, punching and kicking them and then fleeing quickly to evade police, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.
Police had to escort some fans back to hotels, according to authorities.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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