Around 60 people have been arrested in Amsterdam after fans of an Israeli soccer team faced overnight anti-Semitic attacks in the streets of the Netherlands’ capital.

Reports of scenes across Amsterdam on the evening of Nov. 7 showed Jewish Israeli football fans being targeted in a series of violent attacks after the match between Maccabi and Ajax Amsterdam.

They said fans had left the stadium without incident after the Europa League match, which Ajax won 5–0, but that clashes erupted overnight in the city center.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” and that riot police had to intervene several times to protect them and escort them to hotels.

The Israeli government initially was going to send an IDF rescue mission to the Netherlands, though now, efforts will focus on civilian flights to bring Israelis back home.

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Israeli airlines El Al and Arkia said two rescue flights were on the way to Amsterdam.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he views with “utmost gravity the planned anti-Semitic attack against Israeli citizens” and requested that security be increased for the Dutch Jewish community.

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said he was “horrified by the anti-Semitic attacks on Israeli citizens,” which he called “completely unacceptable.”

Politician Geert Wilders, head of the largest party in the Dutch government, said he was “ashamed that this can happen in the Netherlands.”

Wilders, a right-wing populist widely known for his anti-Islam views, has pledged to curb “the asylum tsunami” and immigration to the Netherlands.

“It is totally unacceptable that there was insufficient police protection to prevent this violence and protect the people,” he said.

“France is not backing down because that would amount to giving up in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said in a post on X.

Paris police are planning to deploy more than 2,000 officers around the Stade de France to secure the game on Nov. 14, BFM TV reported.

When describing the perpetrators of the most serious anti-Semitic harassment they had faced in the past five years, 35 percent of respondents identified them as individuals with “Muslim extremist views,” 20 percent said they “could not describe” the person, and 19 percent reported that the perpetrator was a colleague, schoolmate, or someone from work.

Reuters contributed to this report.