Shluchim and community members of Amsterdam, Holland, rushed to rescue visiting Israelis at 2 am local time after a mob of Arabs attacked them brutally. BH all the injured have been released form the hospital.
By YWN and Anash.org
Hundreds of Israelis, who were visiting Amsterdam for a soccer game by Maccabi Tel Aviv, were attacked on the streets at around 2 am.
The attack was coordinated beforehand, with hundreds of Arabs waiting to attack Jews after the game at train stations and hotels. Israeli security officials had warned Dutch authorities about a planned attack and were ignored.
Jews were run over by cars, stabbed, beaten, and coerced into shouting: “Free Palestine” in Arabic – “Frei Palestine.” In at least one case, an Israeli was thrown into a canal and forced to yell “Free Palestine” before he was extracted from the water.
Many of the Arabs filmed their attacks and posted them on social media, showing Jews being beaten and humiliated. Photos of stolen Israeli passports are also circulating on social media.
A number of Israelis were reported as missing and unreachable, though everyone has since been accounted for. Other Israelis reported that Arabs tried to abduct Jews.
Rabbi Akiva Kameisar, a shliach to Amsterdam, said that he was awake at 2 am, when he suddenly started getting messages about the attack. He immediately mobilized community members who drove to the city center and helped those Israelis who were stranded in their hotel rooms to get to the airport safely.
The morning before the game, shluchim had helped dozens of the soccer fans put on tefillin in Amsterdam’s city center.
Israel’s Transportation Ministry instructed El Al and Israir to add three flights to Amsterdam to rescue Israelis in addition to the three regularly scheduled flights. Israelis whose passports were stolen or lost will be allowed to board the flights without passports.
While a number of Israelis were hospitalized following the attack, they have all been released BH.
As of noon on Friday (Israeli time), Dutch police had arrested 62 Muslim perpetrators.
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