Protesters, who gathered on Dam Square in the city center, shouted slogans such as “Free Palestine” when riot police intervened.
This Sunday, Dutch police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters who gathered in Amsterdam, despite the current ban.
Protesters, who gathered on Dam Square in the city center, shouted slogans such as “Free Palestine” when riot police intervened.
The protest took place three days after cases of violence among Israeli soccer fans were reported in the city.
Before the match against Ajax, Maccabi fans tore the Palestinian flag off a building, engaged in clashes and shouted anti-Arab slogans on the way to the stadium.
As a result of this case, the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, banned demonstrations this weekend.
Amsterdam City Council said in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter) that police detained protesters who refused to leave the square.
The unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7 in southern Israel killed 1,206 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data, including dead hostages. That day, 251 people were held hostage.
In total, 97 remain hostages in Gaza, 34 of them declared dead by the army.
The Israeli offensive launched in retaliation in the Gaza Strip left 43,552 dead, most of them civilians, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, and caused a humanitarian disaster.
Source: Observadora
