00:00Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has cancelled a trip to the COP-29 climate talks in Azerbaijan
00:07to deal with the fallout from assaults on Israeli football fans.
00:11Schoof said the government would discuss the violence on Monday and he would hold talks
00:16on tackling anti-Semitism on Tuesday.
00:19Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar arrived in the Netherlands on Friday and offered Israel's
00:23help in the police investigation.
00:26Schoof said he told Saar that the Dutch government is doing everything it can to ensure that
00:30the Jewish community in our country feels safe.
00:35Violence broke out in Amsterdam on Thursday night after a football match between Ajax
00:39and Maccabee Tel Aviv.
00:41Video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans on their way to
00:46the game.
00:47Gangs of youths then conducted what Amsterdam's mayor called hit-and-run attacks on fans apparently
00:53inspired by calls on social media to target Jewish people.
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