Israeli Football Fans

Israel has urged fans to avoid Thursday's France-Israel football tie, which authorities fear could become a flashpoint following violence in Amsterdam following a match involving an Israeli team.

The attacks on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam this week followed tensions that began brewing days before between the fans and pro-Palestinian activists and other people in the city, a chronology of events showed.

Fresh off a flight home, Israeli football fans back from Amsterdam recalled on Friday clashes and violence they said targeted Jewish people following a Europa League match.

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the dispatch of two planes to Amsterdam to evacuate Israeli soccer fans who were attacked by an alleged Pro-Palestinian mob on Thursday night.

A video, which has been doing rounds on the Internet, shows a group of English football fans shouting "Free Palestine" on live TV at a FIFA World Cup telecast by an Israeli channel.

Qatar has agreed to allow special direct flights from Israel that will be open to both Israeli and Palestinian fans for the World Cup, FIFA announced on Thursday

Israeli social media users have exhorted Lionel Messi to acknowledge the death of Daniel Tregaron, a four-year-old Messi fan after the soccer star said he was "deeply saddened" by the loss of young lives in a post with a photo of an injured Palestinian boy on Facebook.

Israeli police have arrested 16 suspects in connection with a racist attack by Jewish football fans on Arab cleaners at Jerusalem's main shopping centre, a spokesman said on Friday.

For the Israeli football team, Hapoel Kiryat Shalom, it is not the coach or team captains who make strategic decisions - it is the team's fans.

For the Israeli football team, Hapoel Kiryat Shalom, it's not the coach or team captains who make strategic decisions it's the team's fans.

Israel has urged fans to avoid Thursday's France-Israel football tie, which authorities fear could become a flashpoint following violence in Amsterdam following a match involving an Israeli team.

The attacks on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam this week followed tensions that began brewing days before between the fans and pro-Palestinian activists and other people in the city, a chronology of events showed.

Fresh off a flight home, Israeli football fans back from Amsterdam recalled on Friday clashes and violence they said targeted Jewish people following a Europa League match.

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the dispatch of two planes to Amsterdam to evacuate Israeli soccer fans who were attacked by an alleged Pro-Palestinian mob on Thursday night.

A video, which has been doing rounds on the Internet, shows a group of English football fans shouting "Free Palestine" on live TV at a FIFA World Cup telecast by an Israeli channel.

Qatar has agreed to allow special direct flights from Israel that will be open to both Israeli and Palestinian fans for the World Cup, FIFA announced on Thursday

Israeli social media users have exhorted Lionel Messi to acknowledge the death of Daniel Tregaron, a four-year-old Messi fan after the soccer star said he was "deeply saddened" by the loss of young lives in a post with a photo of an injured Palestinian boy on Facebook.

Israeli police have arrested 16 suspects in connection with a racist attack by Jewish football fans on Arab cleaners at Jerusalem's main shopping centre, a spokesman said on Friday.

For the Israeli football team, Hapoel Kiryat Shalom, it is not the coach or team captains who make strategic decisions - it is the team's fans.

For the Israeli football team, Hapoel Kiryat Shalom, it's not the coach or team captains who make strategic decisions it's the team's fans.