Dutch police took away greater than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters on Sunday who defied a ban on demonstrations in Amsterdam following clashes this week involving Israeli soccer followers.
A whole lot of demonstrators gathered within the capital’s Dam Sq., chanting “Free Palestine” and “Amsterdam says no to genocide”, in reference to the Gaza struggle.
Israel denies allegations of genocide in its greater than year-long offensive towards Palestinian militant group Hamas.
After a neighborhood court docket ratified town council’s ban, police moved in, instructing protesters to go away and rounding up greater than 100 of them, in response to a Reuters journalist.
They have been placed on buses and dropped off on the outskirts of town, police spokesperson Ramona van den Ochtend stated, with out confirming what number of had been picked up.
One protester was taken to an ambulance bleeding.
The ban, which authorities prolonged for an additional 4 days till Thursday, has been in place since Friday after assaults on Israeli soccer supporters following a soccer match between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.
At the least 5 individuals have been injured in assaults that Dutch authorities and overseas leaders together with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced as antisemitic.
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Protest organisers stated in a message on Instagram that they have been outraged by the “framing” of unrest across the match as antisemitic and known as the protest ban draconian.
“We refuse to let the cost of antisemitism be weaponized to suppress Palestinian resistance,” they stated.
4 individuals stay detained on suspicion of violent acts, together with two minors. One other 40 individuals have been fined for public disturbance and 10 for offences together with vandalism.
In addition to struggling assaults by what the mayor known as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads”, visiting Israeli followers burned a Palestinian flag and used sticks, pipes and rocks in clashes with opponents, in response to a video and police report.
Native police chief Olivier Dutilh advised the court docket on Sunday that the protest ban was nonetheless wanted as antisemitic incidents have been persevering with, together with individuals being pushed out of taxis and advised to point out their passports on Saturday evening.
The Netherlands has seen an increase in antisemitic incidents because the Gaza struggle started in October final 12 months.
Greater than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in Israel’s navy offensive on Gaza, in response to well being officers there, launched after Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took greater than 250 hostage in a cross-border assault, in response to Israel.
