Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday asked his counterpart in the Netherlands to provide more security for Israelis after fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv FC  soccer team were attacked in Amsterdam on Thursday by anti-Israel protesters.

The violence erupted following a UEFA Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Israeli air carrier El Al is sending planes to Amsterdam on Shabbat to evacuate Israelis, after the Israeli Defense Forces said it was standing down on a plan to “immediately deploy a rescue mission” to the city.

Officials in the Netherlands say 20 to 30 people were injured in the attacks.

“The police have launched a major investigation into multiple violent incidents. So far, it is known that five people have been taken to the hospital and 62 individuals have been arrested,” Amsterdam Police said in a statement.

ISRAELI SOCCER FANS TARGETED IN WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema called the violence “an eruption of antisemitism that we had hoped never again to see in Amsterdam,” according to The Associated Press. 

She reportedly said youths in the city were riding around on scooters in search of Israeli fans, before punching and kicking them and fleeing quickly to avoid law enforcement. 

Ofek Ziv, a Maccabi fan from the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, told the AP that someone threw a rock that hit him in the head as he and a friend left the stadium. They fled the area in a taxi.

In this image taken from video, police in riot gear run towards protesters, after pro-Palestinian supporters marched near the soccer stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, Nov. 7. (RTL Nieuws via AP)

“I’m very scared, it’s very striking. This shouldn’t happen to anyone, specifically in Amsterdam. Lots of friends were hurt, injured, kidnapped, robbed, and the police didn’t come to help us,” he said.

Speaking with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof after the violence, Netanyahu said he takes the “premeditated attacks” seriously. He urged Schoof to bolster security for Israelis in the country. 

Anti-Israel agitators demonstrate at Amsterdam’s Anton de Komplein square ahead of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Nov. 7.  (Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel has also added more phone lines at the embassy and in the Foreign Ministry’s situation room.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Thursday’s attacks the most alarming thing to happen to Jews since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.

“We woke up this morning to shocking images and videos that since October 7th, we had hoped never to see again: an antisemitic pogrom currently taking place against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Israeli citizens in the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands,” Herzog wrote on X.

“This is a serious incident, a warning sign for any country that wishes to uphold the values of freedom.” 

There are reports that some fans were chanting anti-Arab slogans before the game. In one social media video that Reuters says it has verified, the traveling Maccabi fans were seen setting off flares and chanting “Ole, ole, let the IDF win, we will f–k the Arabs,” in an apparent reference to the Israel Defense Forces.

Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration at the Dam Square, lighting up flares and chanting slogans ahead of the UEFA Europa League match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursday. (Mouneb Taim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it “strongly condemns the anti-Arab slogans and hostile actions carried out by supporters of an Israeli football club in Amsterdam.

“These acts included the desecration and removal of the Palestinian flag from symbolic sites that signify solidarity with Palestinian rights and resistance against the ongoing occupation and systematic violence in Gaza,” it added.

TWO JEWISH STUDENTS AT DEPAUL UNIVERSITY TARGETED ON CAMPUS BY MASKED ATTACKERS

An Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fan gestures as they arrive at the Ben Gurion International Airport after overnight attacks following the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)

The Dutch prime minister on Friday called the “antisemitic” attacks on Israeli soccer fans “unacceptable” and said the “perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted.”

Videos on social media showed multiple fights happening in the streets outside the stadium where Maccabi Tel Aviv FC was playing Ajax. Days earlier, Spanish media reported that anti-Israel agitators would protest outside the stadium to target Israel’s soccer club and its fans.

ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS HANDED LEGAL SETBACK IN EFFORT TO EXPAND DNC RALLY

Supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv hold flags at Dam square ahead of the Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on Nov. 7. (Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

“We have become the Gaza of Europe,” populist Dutch political leader Geert Wilders of the anti-Muslim immigration Freedom Party in the Netherlands said following the attacks.

“Muslims with Palestinian flags hunting down Jews. I will NOT accept that. NEVER,” he wrote on X. “The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens. Never again.”

The IDF has barred soldiers from flying to Amsterdam, but “exceptional requests will be examined individually,” the military stated.

Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.

One of cinema’s most iconic vampires is out of the coffin again. Robert Eggers‘ “Nosferatu” finally debuted to film press, and first reactions are calling the horror drama a “knockout” with impeccable below-the-line craft.

A reimagining of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent German Expressionist film, “Nosferatu” stars Lily-Rose Depp as a young woman who becomes the object of desire for the terrifying vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). Eggers’ supporting cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe. The director penned the script for “Nosferatu” himself.

Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis called the film “gorgeous and horrifically brilliant,” saying Depp is “haunting” and Skarsgård is “menacing.”

Indiewire chief film critic David Ehrlich highlighted all the sweaty “writhing” in the movie, perhaps a superlative amount. And he meant it as a compliment.

Variety senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay flipped for the movie, saying Eggers has delivered “a perfect remake.”

Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist had awards on the mind after the screening, saying the movie is a “major below-the-line player.” Interestingly, he asserted the opinion that Depp has a shot at a nomination in the supporting actress race — a distinguishing from a lead role that’s notable given Depp’s high billing.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association member and Variety contributor Courtney Howard said “if you’re not afraid of rats before seeing this movie, you will be now,” along with the note that it “goes harder than any other horror film this year.”

Gizmodo and io9 reporter Germain Lussier gave the caveat that the film is “not my favorite Eggers,” but still deemed the feature a “knockout” with “a hint of devilish humor.”

Eggers has long been an outspoken fan of Murnau’s film and remaking it was a passion project for the filmmaker, whose directorial efforts so far include “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman.”

“It was an indie horror in its day, a bit rough around the edges yet it’s one of the greatest and most haunting films ever made,” Robert Eggers once told Shudder about “Nosferatu.” “The newly restored color tinted versions are really impressive, but I still prefer the poor black-and-white versions made from scraps of 16mm prints. Those grimy versions have an uncanny mystery to them and helped build the myth of Max Shreck being a real vampire.”

“Nosferatu” opens in theaters Dec. 25 from Focus Features.